JennBunny

The closer you get to me without my consent or without readily discernible justification or excuse, the more alarming, dangerous, disgusting you become, even without considering your hygiene. I understand your violation as a moral one, knowing it to be so precisely by the moral sentiments it evokes in me. Contamination, pollution, and the capacity to disgust are inherent in your youness. You are dangerous simply by being you and not me, or by being you and not yet having defined as privileged to do disgusting things without disgusting me by doing them; that is, you are not yet loved or my doctor. I have, however, no great reason to feel superior to you on account of your ability to disgust me; for I should know that I am as contaminating to you as you are to me. This mutual knowledge should engender a certain respectfulness, a willingness to mind the other's territory and claim inviolability.

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