i like your analogy.. but only to a point. fear of botulism overrides common sense. for instance, i will buy a can thats a little dinged but obviously new. maybe nothing wrong with the food at all, other than human mangling. but the fear wastes so much perfectly good product because the superficial package is dented.

its the same kind of "dont buy used" mentality that leads us to mass producing to meet the manufactured supply and demand, which leads us to issues of pollution, resource depletion etc. this thought process doesnt do our culture any favors, it just leads to throw away mentality instead of dealing with where that leads us down the road. a lack of consideration for environment and people.

we see all of the "bad" people under one microscope, and dont look at the grey areas of how they might be doing good, a balancing of power. trump is over protectionist, to the extent that he is labeling all mexicans as probable druggies and criminals, instead of looking at the reality of their socio-political reality. i dont agree with isis violence and distorted mentality, yet i question how the government labels 10k bad. what are the criteria? coming from a racist president, yes i do question that.

before you label all the bacteria in your gut as bad, maybe you should ask - what behavior do you have that allowed them to proliferate?