JR. Forasteros

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Should we extend hospitality to monsters? And if we do, are we not courting the danger inherent in the monstrous, the blurring and failure of normative distinctions that define and protect the moral integrity of the group? Phrased differently, a community that embraces everything fails to be any community at all. As Douglas helps us see, dirt defines community.
Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
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