raw philosophy and practical perception could be at variance

You cannot use raw mud if you want to cook food with a mud pot.. 

You have to make the pot, bake and season it and then only you can use it.. 

There is a lot of difference between physical and chemical states of the materials found in different circumstance and the building blocks for the same materials would not serve the purpose in practical life..

The lack of difference that you point out  between mud and pot made of it would sound good philosophy.. when we make discourses.. 

But in practical terms there can be major issues.

For example Grandmother is a woman, mother is a woman, wife is a woman, sister is a woman, daughter is a woman and grand daughter too is a woman.. there can be colleagues too as woman.. They are all respectable with more or less identical qualities.. Can a man treat all of them in the same way? Similarly can a woman treat all the men of different levels of kinship and acquaintance in the same manner..

Raw philosophy and real life can be quite different.

A jeevanmuktha may see mud and the pot as of same importance.. But most of us are just jeevans... not jeevanmukthas..