Do you realize how many people and how much of human life has been sustained by shit throughout the ages?
A farmer doesn't go out of his way to step in a pile of shit, but he'll happily scoop it up with his shovel and use it where it actually does a great good.
Or, it's more simple than all that.
Some of us remember that pile of shit we stepped in already, learned a lesson, and now know to go around it.
Just saying.
Do you realize how many people and how much of human life has been sustained by shit throughout the ages?
A farmer doesn't go out of his way to step in a pile of shit, but he'll happily scoop it up with his shovel and use it where it actually does a great good.
Not the point I was getting at, but your historical parallels can't be argued.
Here maybe this one's easier to inderstand:
A dog that keeps biting your livestock shouldn't be trusted in the field anymore.