Tripartite Apartheid

What is the deal with the tripartite plastic plate anyways?  It feels like my plate is subconsciously encouraging me to eat three different things.  What if I don't like three of the offerings?  If I only populate two of the three segments, I'm I breaking some unwritten rule?  What the plate is also trying to tell me is that I should be eating a lot of one thing and a little less of two other things.  I don't think that my portion sizes relative to each other should be dictated by the wonderful people at Solo.  And why would plate makers would go through the hassel of making the tripartite plastic plate in the first place?  Seems like a regular flat plate would be much easier to make from a manufacturing standpoint.  I think the partitions are also very restricting because they pretty much guarantee that my three distinct food items will not interact with each other.  It's mandatory culinary segregation!  And what if I wanted four items?  Then two of them would have to touch.  I'm sorta playing the Devil's advocate here, because I really can't stand when different foods touch each other, but what if I did!?!  Now that I think about it, perhaps the reason why I don't like my foods touching each other is because they always give little kids partitioned plates!  Did you ever think of that, Mom and Dad!  I hate you!