I really don't understand premodern fetishists. I'd be dead at least 8 times already if it weren't for modern medicine. Not that I'd ever have been born because my father was premature at 1lb and my mother was in a fire as a child and needed skin grafts to survive.
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Imagine having 15 pregnancies but ending up with 1,2 or 3 adult offspring. Imagine losing 12 or 13 children between birth and 10. You couldn't survive it if you let yourself love them unreservedly. Then look at your little ones and imagine missing out on being able to love them.
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It's no good saying slavery, colonialism, high infant mortality, oppression of women & LGBTs happened in modern era so it's bad. That's to miss that they happened in every other era. Look at the one that worked its way out of them. Don't undervalue this unless you want to go back
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But this is not a good descriptor of hunter gather societies specifically pre agricultural era. It wasnt a utopia but people lived and thrived just as well and disease, longevity was not compromised. It is their robutness that got us here in the first place
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Hunter gatherers were probably healthier than early agriculturalists, but they still died of diseases that are trivial today. Also childbirth. If you made it out of childhood/childbearing, could live to old age, but lots didn't make it. Survived by having many kids but lost lots.
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That's still the case in many parts of the world. But our priority is to wannabe billionaires.
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