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It may also be that the rule was never the "shadow" of some empirico-rational observation at all.

Like the milk and the calf rule from Judaism, which was pretty blatantly an authoritarian attempt to enforce social division.

How so? Do you mean the Toraic rule about "seething a kid in its mother's milk" or the Rabbinic fences around it?

:D

Maybe that’s just the way the Divine wanted it.