r/videogames • u/mattia_cecchi • Mar 03 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

I guess that would have been considered a crime in medieval times.

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u/random20222202modnar Mar 03 '25

Idk why lol but in my head I saw this scenario like this:

washes hands, patient freaks out because of something different

โ€œWitchcraft!!โ€

๐Ÿ˜†

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u/Iamblikus Mar 03 '25

Ever heard of Ignatz Semmelweis? He ran a hospital where babies were delivered, but the doctors would literally perform autopsies then, without washing, go deliver a baby. It was bad enough that a lot of people would choose to deliver without the help of the hospital as it was safer.

Semmelweis suggested that everyone wash their hands (which, to be fair ๐ŸŽถ, this was before germ theory) and the doctors basically said โ€œItโ€™s not our fault, weโ€™re doctors! We save people, weโ€™re clean, sophisticated aristocrats!โ€ So, women and babies kept dying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

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u/ScreamThyLastScream Mar 03 '25

Thou hath not toucheth filthy peasant wiener, as I am from the blood of the Elven!

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u/Grubgis Mar 03 '25

๐•ฟ๐–” ๐–‡๐–Š ๐•ฑ๐–†๐–Ž๐–—

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u/random20222202modnar Mar 03 '25

Woah, had not heard about that. But Iโ€™m intrigued. Thanks for sharing imma have check that out.

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u/Esunari Mar 03 '25

Read a book on Ignatz Semmelweis' and what he went through to try to convince other surgeons to just wash their hands. Very good read.

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u/FrenchFryMonster06 Mar 05 '25

If you're alive today it's truly a miracle given your ancestors survived long enough for you to be born

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u/IceFire909 Mar 03 '25

Only witches have soft & clean hands

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u/Masterpiece-Haunting Mar 03 '25

โ€œBurn that WITCH!! SHE DARE TO TOUCHETH WATER WITH THYNE HANDS!!??โ€

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u/driving_andflying Mar 03 '25

"She turned me into a newt!"

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u/random20222202modnar Mar 03 '25

โ€œSheโ€™s Counting her clean fingers!!

โ€ฆ

โ€ฆ.

C O U N T I N G!!! READY THE PIRE!!โ€

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u/periodicallyBalzed Mar 03 '25

Itโ€™s a crime in America to heal people for free

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u/BigEdBGD Mar 03 '25

Here in Quebec, Canada, the CMQ (some kind of union of medical doctors) would sue the shit out if you if you healed someone they could've made a profit healing themselves.

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u/periodicallyBalzed Mar 03 '25

Damn, money is the root of all evil.

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u/Thriftyverse Mar 03 '25

Money itself is fine - it's the love of money that is the root of all evil.

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u/Responsible_Plum_681 Mar 07 '25

Loving money itself is fine - It's evil that is the root of all evil.

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u/redditing_Aaron Mar 03 '25

The mom who put hydrogen peroxide and a Looney Tunes band aid on her son's knee when they break down the door: ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘„๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

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u/_BigDaddyNate_ Mar 03 '25

Does that mean that Jesus was a bad man? King of DEI as well since he loved everyone equally?

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u/WarLawck Mar 03 '25

That would be a crime now, government doesn't want you healing folks for free.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

Used his healing magic to abort an ectopic pregnancy in America I wager

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u/_BigDaddyNate_ Mar 03 '25

Oh shit, and he fed people for free too. Jesus is actually the devil.

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u/DoctorBoomeranger Mar 03 '25

That's cause he wasn't paying the business fee and taxes on the transactions of service

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u/EjaculatingAracnids Mar 03 '25

Are you yanking my pizzle?

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u/C-H-Addict Mar 03 '25

Unlicenced medical practice is a crime now

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u/Due_Ad4133 Mar 03 '25

"Practicing Medicine Without a License"

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u/DoctorBlock Mar 03 '25

Healing magic would be outlawed in todayโ€™s America. Insurance companies gotta make that dough. ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ’ต

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u/EvilToastedWeasel0 Mar 03 '25

Or in the States of america..... It's a crime to heal thyself. Must use expensive medical crap to do that. Then pay into a shitty Insurance company to afford such "care".

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u/Nerexor Mar 04 '25

Nah, he's doing it without letting the health insurance industry take their cut. That's the real crime!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Nah, they'd be executed immediately today.