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> You don’t need any of those soapy substances. It’s all a big lie perpetrated by people who want your money. If you eat/sleep/exercise properly, you will almost never get sick and your body will never smell bad. You won’t need to overcompensate by wasting money on soapy substances.

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Yeah I mean, it's not like the advent of soap and the generalisation of it's use (along general hygiene) revolutionised the world or anything.

All those people cleaning their clothes with soap on the river in the 16th century were clearly being lied by corporations who wanted their money.

And there are more than 7 billion people in this world. In japan, sick people wear face mask to minimize the spread of their sickness. We use vaccines to protect us.

Humans are not perfect creatures.

On a side note: does he at least use soap when he goes to the bathroom, you know, to have a shit?

I only wash my hands in the bathroom if I shit on my hands, and that happens at MOST two or three times a week.

... They get vaccines in Japan. I can't tell if your wording was AWFUL or you think people in Japan don't get vaccines.

Citations are a big lie perpetrated by 'big soap' as well.

But, but... then this corporation's reach must date back to thousands of years ago, when we (falsely) discovered that proper hygiene was deeply correlated with improved health. Does it control the World Health Organization too? Oh my...

Everyone is in on it. Even kindergartens. Do you remember how you were taught in kindergarten to exercise proper hygiene? Turns out that they are really just the gov't's tool to brainwash (pun intended) you into using soap.

From what I've seen..smelled.. you get accustomed to your own odour, it doesn't go away. You need soap, modern minimalists.

Haha you're right. Point taken. I don't have a citation for that one. It's just an opinion I've formed based on my personal experience. I don't know if anything I've said will work for anyone else, but I know that it seems to work for me. In the future, would you suggest I make it more clear that I'm just expressing an opinion when I say stuff like that?

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