"how we lived our entire history" is generally "as hunter-gatherers, who died when something went slightly wrong".
111i mean sure they didn't have modern medicine, but they were generally in way better health than we are now and still had basic plant medicine.
washing off wounds and wrapping them in medicinal leaves does a lot, and there is archaeological evidence of individuals who were in extremely bad health and yet through care from their tribe they managed to survive for years in such a state.
This idea that hunter-gatherers lived lives of misery and were too dumb to try to prevent bad things is unfortunately very widespread, when the reality is that hunter-gatherers had it about as good as you can expect from living without modern technology.
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If we're going to be saddled with 19th century British customs they could at least have left in all the drugs.
74We do have the gin.
16it is our god given RIGHT to buy morphene over the counter!
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"These are our ANCIENT TRADITIONS"
Yeah sure they are buddy, people in this town were totally exploding fireworks 300 years ago at 4AM. Is being a drunkard your family tradition too?
40I mean the day drinking is probably a lot older as a custom than the little bombs, but
21China is probably the one place that can lay claim to that particular tradition being ancient. They go hard for spring festival.
3I mean, yeah, alcoholism has genetic factors and it's not like drunks are bad at breeding.
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Even if something is "natural," that doesn't mean it's good.
36Slipping in mud and landing face-first in animal droppings is perfectly natural too
14We only grow old and die because of mother nature. I normally like dommy mommies, but this one can fuck off.
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As if 19th century Britain was a monolith
20i am PISSED. Rrrroyally PISSED
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example?
13One reason non-heteronormative sex is so demonized in countries that were formerly under British occupation is because of the influence of the British customs and laws.
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If they are that old.
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