If you ever thought poop and it's more declarative, frontal, rude, profane and clearly more direct and often inter-changeable "synonym" is the same, we'll i'm here today to set things straight. Poop comes out of butts-big ones and tiny ones. Puppies, peoples, doesn't matter. Big people's poop gets flushed down stream, dog's poop gets pick-up and trashed, hopefully.
Shit, on the other hand can come from anywhere and anyone, but mostly it comes from people-directly or indirectly. Shit can come from actions (or lack of them), from attitude, like in "giving someone shit" or from words- remarkably, without even using the "s" word itself- but because of underlying intent, like lying or fudging the truth (aka bullshiting). Everyone is born to poop, very few of us are born to dish-out shit. It is learned. And easily learned, because giving someone shit -like a shit product or shit service or lying/bullshitting someone is easy. Just about anyone can do a shit job at work- until they're outted/fired- and just about anyone can treat family and friends like shit until even the most loving, committed "BFF's" are no longer.
Like i said, dealing in shit is easy. Learning not to deal in it is hard. Like getting hooked on crystal meth or crack is easy, but getting off is, from what i hear, really hard! And maybe, like the desire for drugs, you never truly loose the urge to "shit", but you control it. Because you understand the problem is real and you take responsibility for it. Like being an alchoholic even if you haven't had a drink in 20 years---it works for AA and for the people who unfailingly go to their meetings week after week, month after month, year after year and unabashingly declare to their peers who they are: "I'm an alcoholic".
You see i do know poop. So does my wife, as we (mostly her) lovingly pick up Abby's at least once a day, sometimes twice (hey, more poop to love). We pick it up because we live in NYC and it's the law. But we would even if it wasn't. Because if we didn't it would pile up, it would get on people's shoes, it would stink up the area, it would even attract flies and maybe get people sick. But more than anything else it would turn our beloved Airedale's majestic poop into something very different and quite disgusting. It would turn it into shit. And, if there's one thing i really hate, it's...!