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So where I live, frozen chicken is cut on a wooden chopping board overlaid with pieces of the carton it came it. Without washing you'll end up with random bits of cardboard, wood, fish fins and possibly sand.
If your meat is visibly dirty then sure, go ahead and rinse it, don't be an idiot and eat wood. This conversation is people buying it from the grocery though.
Are you the little mermaid?
This is reasonable time to wash your chicken and also likely where this habit comes from. Before the age of factory farming and the advent of reliable home refrigeration a lot of meat was improperly stored before and after selling.
Washing your produce was likely a good defense mechanism to wash away actual dirt, grime and bugs that may have adhered to it. Nowadays it's largely unnecessary unless you're still living in a place where butchering and processing techniques may not be of the greatest quality.