I’m pretty sure that there’s very little that would have Guen in contact with people who could reasonably be assumed to have STDs, and more to the point, very little to suggest Jean would include that element.
Pregnancy aside, that is.
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Guns of Infinity yeah…
…I’m going to ignore this subject now. shivers
I actually asked the question regarding STDs in the “Guns of Infinity” thread. I got no answer.
Would you also like a scene where Guen stops to take a piss? “Realism in all things” is not actually a worthwhile goal.
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That’s … actually a good idea.
I think it’s less “realism in all things” and more “Why would this be realistic?”
Arthur is a virgin when he and Guen get involved, and a faithful husband. That leaves Lancelot and Morgana, and why would either have STDs?
Also this is medieval stds didn’t exist back then. I know they existed, lol. I mean people thought that illness were demon workings or that X girl is a witch a maleficarum and the treatment is kill her with fire or launched stones or drawn her. Boys never where found guilty but they had to suffering terrible medicine that included leeches and hot iron placed in you now where. Spain had a gruesome method to make king more able to have babies … believe me you dont want to know about it.
Although this setting may be better than our world in that regard, or at least less gory.
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So kill it with fire isn’t a legitimate way to cure illnesses?
I have some things I need to do…
No inquisition thoughts come from. Illnesses are bad, demon is bad. So demon and sins is the origin of all illnessess. Girls caused the ilness by follow devil and curse their soul. Pain and fire cure soul throughout pain, because pain erase sins and purifiers. kill people alive with fire is a mercy died for inquisition because help that souls to go at least purgatory instead hell
That sounds somewhat stupid.
Good things don’t come from forcing others to suffer.
Anyway I orefer using to permanently kill evil things.
- Kill it
2.Burn it to ashes.
3Burn the ashes
4.Spread them to the fourwinds
5.Salt the land where it falls
Skip step five if it falls into the ocean.
And witch trials were somewhat stupid.
They were certainly stupid, I don’t think Mara was saying they were a good thing, and I think she was just trying to explain how they thought.
At the risk of derailing the topic:
I’m going to say I’m not convinced they were stupid. Ignorant, certainly, but stupid implies that all the information we know today about how the world works was just as available to them - and that’s not always even close to those with more limited observation capacity (aren’t microscopes wonderful?).
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Okay, let me rephrase: Stupid for today’s standards. On retrospect, with everything WE know, they seem stupid. For the time they may of been quite reasonable (…or at least not seen as idiotic/stupid)
We know what causes infection, for example, or at least know where to look it up if we as in the individuals having this discussion don’t.
How, with the unaided human senses, are they supposed to come up with an effective response when they don’t even know what is there needing to be dealt with?
I have trouble calling it a sign they were just incapable of rational decisions.
I’m not disagreeing with you here. I’m simply saying that when you look back on such things MOST people tend to say “Wow… that’s dumb”, because they have knowledge and information that people in said time did not have. I’m not saying they were incapable of rational decisions, i’m really not saying that at all. A lot of things are dumb in hindsight, because now you know things that you didn’t know back then. However, that doesn’t stop you from calling yourself an idiot for such a mistake, does it? Same thing here, not saying they weren’t capable of rational decisions, just that when looking back on it with what we know now, people think its dumb.
Of course It is not a good thing but it’s how people believed and thought. It is not far away from Salem trials or exorcism that still being done nowadays.as elf said they were no stupids. Same as stone age people weren’t stupid even before discover fire or create a language. they didn’t have our modern science and never saw a bacteria or virus. they just knrw bible and demons to explain things, they did bad stuff but they weren’t stupid or crazy
Actually, to see how the medieval characters deal with STDs or any illness that they don’t understand but that is well known to modern readers would be an interesting thing, particulary in a choice of Game. @jeantown will the game feature any non-sexual diseses or illnesses?
@poison_mara To make the king more able to have babies? Didn’t medieval people blame only the woman for a couple’s infertility? BTW, what was this method? You can write it as a spoiler.
Fair enough.
I think we need to acknowledge that with the information they had they were trying to make rational decisions, though. Sometimes it looks like their understanding of the world was so skewed that delusional is probably the only accurate word, but simply talking about believing demons existed being that is unfair.
I’d have a hard time saying that bacteria as we know them aren’t something that sounds like evil spirits, and I say this firmly in the 21st century.
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I agree with @fallaner that they are stupid in hindsight.
They couldn’t have the understanding of what causes disease.
That doesn’t excuse burning people at the stake but still.
They were ignorant in every sense and stupid in hindsight.
But I still don’t know how they came up with stake burning though.
But i’m biased against any ignorance or stupidity I see.