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ReturnOfFa posted...

oh right, I forgot that everyone followed the law in all of those ancient cultures. my mistake!!!

So your counter, to my statement that people have not always followed the same laws and traditions across a multitude of time periods and cultures, each with their own societal norms, religious beliefs, societal structures, and so-forth, is to simply say people didn't always follow the law?

That's not a counter or even an argument. It's a blind assertion relying on the fact that it's impossible to disprove a negative (especially when it comes to ancient history). You may as well claim that the ancient Mayans played D&D and acted out 'The Real Housewives of Machu Picchu' since you can't prove they didn't have those sorts of ideas.

For example, in a lot of feudal societies, the infant mortality rate was high since, well, feudal. If you wanted your bloodline preserved you usually needed to have a multitude of children. Not only that but every child you had meant more help with things like farming and what-not regardless of their gender. In the noble families each child you had meant more opportunities for political alliances, fall-backs for maintaining titles, and so-forth. There's a reason a lot of noble families had 3-5 children if not more. Combined with extremely strict catholic moral taboos against that sort of thing and it's crazy to think that they'd have the same view of it as we do today or even the same views as the exact same society just in the 1800's or something. Especially since a society in a place where food was plentiful would have an entirely different view on children than a place where food was scarce. Or a place that frequently was involved in wars was from a place that was relatively peaceful. Nevermind the difference between a European culture, a culture in the African Congo, Central America, Mongolia, and India in the exact same time period.

So no. Saying 'they didn't always follow the rules' is not an argument here.