I'm not saying I disagree with your points. Just that it doesn’t make logical sense. I think we agree you need to know what you are doing and learn all you can before doing something that "might" be extremely dangerous. Maybe that’s the bottom line. And if your only source of information is us on this board than maybe you have bigger issues ; )

Eating shit can make you very ill. It can kill you. The problem we have here is the difference between "can" and "will." No one said "will."

Let me put it another way. Pretty much everything in life can be viewed in terms of risk reduction. Breastfeeding a child for a minimum of one year reduces the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, dental caries, asthma, diabetes, various cancers, morbid obesity, visual defects, attention deficit disorders, vaccine reactions, Crohn's disease, and chronic ear infections. NOT breastfeeding does not guarantee that a child will suffer all these things. But there is a markedly higher risk.

Eating shit does not guarantee that you will contract e Coli, giardia, hepatitis, etc. But eating shit does increase the risk dramatically.

Not all smokers get cancer. In fact, the majority don't. But not smoking definitely lessens the risk. And not eating human shit vastly reduces the risk of contracting fecal-born diseases.

I often hear the "well, I do it and I'm fine" argument. A lot of people smoke, too, and they're fine--heck, my grandfather smoked for 76 years--died at 89 of a non-smoking related illness. Just because someone can do something and not get ill doesn't make it a safe or smart thing to do.

And I didn't read a solitary web article to reach these conclusions. I went to college for 8 years

Kallie