▲ 428 ▼ TIL Washing your hands with plain soap is probably better than using antibacterial soap in the long run (www.fda.gov) submitted 2 years ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.world 89 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Loving all the kickback for stating an empirically correct statement. This platform is wild. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I'm curious enough to continue the conversation, if only because talking about definitions is interesting. So I'm not being confrontational, I actually want to have a discussion. You say that all soaps are antibacterial because the result in the end is that no bacteria remains on the hands. I see what you're saying there. But anti-bacterial soap kills the bacteria, including the remaining ones that couldn't be removed. That's like saying that removing a group of humans based on ethnicity from a region, without killing them, amounts to genocide. Would you say that's genocide too?* (And I know the comparison is extreme.) *I think I read somewhere that forcibly removing people from a region amounts to genocide, though. But you know what I mean... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I'm curious enough to continue the conversation, if only because talking about definitions is interesting. So I'm not being confrontational, I actually want to have a discussion. You say that all soaps are antibacterial because the result in the end is that no bacteria remains on the hands. I see what you're saying there. But anti-bacterial soap kills the bacteria, including the remaining ones that couldn't be removed. That's like saying that removing a group of humans based on ethnicity from a region, without killing them, amounts to genocide. Would you say that's genocide too?* (And I know the comparison is extreme.) *I think I read somewhere that forcibly removing people from a region amounts to genocide, though. But you know what I mean... permalink fedilink source parent