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You know what also strips agency from people making their own decisions? Toxic heavy metal poisoning.
by starkd 5y ago
You know what also strips agency from people making their own decisions?
Toxic heavy metal poisoning.
- ashtonkem 5y agoTo some degree, yes. But this telling still has (as a sibling comment put it) an implicit assumption that the empire was good and stable, and the only thing that matters was the lead poisoning of the elites.
- starkd 5y agoThat might be splitting hairs. It was probably a multiple of factors, but lead poisoining, if it occurred on a mass scale, undoubtedly had a big part to do with it.