A Religious Technicality

My crazy religious studies prof was explaining to our class yesterday that in the Hindu religion there are classes and castes. The classes are broken down into 4 groups, but the castes he says, are seemingly endless. Castes are something you're born into, and tend to be things like professions or skills. He gave us some examples, being a black smith, a baker, or even being a prostitute or a thief. I mean, that really had to suck for people following the Hindu faith way back in the day when they realized that their "destiny" was to be a hooker just like mommy.

Someone raised their hand and asked whether or not people tended to be included a combination of castes? My prof said that, no, most people generally fulfilled one caste in life and that was it.

I really really wanted to put up my hand and suggest that thieving hookers probably existed, therefore having a life that comprised of atleast two castes, but I worried that my humour would go unappreciated.

Hell, I bet there were even thieving hookers who loved to bake!