The fingernails and hair are not maintained by the immune system, they are not part of the thermodynamic "self", or the area of matter that is mantained against decay by the mechanisms of entropy exportation in the body. But yet, they are still very necessary. Without -->

fingernails and hair, you would lose some functionality to your body, so they clearly have a use. The fingernails and hair are NOT part of the ingroup of the body ingroup/outgroup dynamic but the body still uses them, its an exploitative relationship, the fingernails and -->

hair are disposable and can cut or clipped without pain. The hair and the fingernails are in the role of an exploited minority, similar to the relation described by Nick Land in Kant, Capital and the Prohibition of Incest with Bantustan in South Africa. The exploited must be -->

integrated into the system (south africa or the human body) for the purpose of exploitation and instrumentality, but also must be excluded from it (civil society or protection of the immune system). The rebellion of an ingrown hair or nail is thus a sort of bodily -->

anti-colonial rebellion, as those integrated purely for the purpose of exploitation and use drive themselves into the in-group with violent force, causing discomfort.

@punished_robin Thoughts?