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Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer

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68 points gappy | 3 comments | 14 Apr 25 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.634s | source
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scotty79 ◴[18 Apr 25 10:01 UTC] No.43726540[source]▶
What a pointless article.

1. That thing happened.

2. Maybe not. It might have been a legend even though some women were punished for this.

3. Maybe misogyny was the worst poison after all that poisoned society and law with suspicion.

It's like it's written by AI prompted with few tidbits of content.

Why not just openly state that most poisoners are still men because men lead in any class of murder (apart form infanticide). No need to perpetuate doubts.

https://www.wired.com/2013/01/the-myth-of-the-female-poisone...

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1. anonym29 ◴[18 Apr 25 12:22 UTC] No.43727394[source]▶
Why draw demographic-shaped boxes around criminals at all? We all know the kinds of thinking this leads to - why encourage it?
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2. scotty79 ◴[19 Apr 25 20:08 UTC] No.43739103[source]▶
Yeah. That would be great if we could stop doing that. Sadly human brain doesn't seem to work that way.
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3. anonym29 ◴[20 Apr 25 02:55 UTC] No.43741189[source]▶
Demographic discrimination may be instinctive, but we are neither wild animals nor pre-programmed automatons incapable of using rationality and reason to modify our behavior to treat others with more kindness than our instincts would guide us to.

I can't tell you how to live your life, but life is better for all us when we avoid demographic-level collective blame, which leads to demographic-level persecution, something I'd hope nobody here wants.