That's the reason for a lot of things... but ignorance starts somewhere. Whose the first moron that was like "it's slimy" and then went and told EVERYONE.
It's been snowing here for three days. I should probably start wearing a jacket. Or, at the very least, long pants and shoes. People tend to give you funny looks when you're walking in the snow barefoot.
Except cancer, lyme's disease, broken limbs, crohn's disease, frostbite, things which leave mental scars, creepy mustaches, watching the sad parts of doctor who, reading homestuck, spraining a part of your body, getting an STD, bondage of a any kind, playing a pvp pokemon battle, and I'm sure there's other stuff I missed.