Re:Why are bones not made of steel? (2010)
by fjsolwmv on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:13PM
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Even active children frequently break bones. But of course dead children are relatively cheap for how many you actually need to survive, it's easy to make extra and lose a few,
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Re:Why are bones not made of steel? (2010)
by masklinn on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:46AM
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And children used to die all the time for all sorts of reasons, even just a pair of generations back, in total my grandparents (father's side) had 16 children (live births, I don't even know if there were still birth), but only 12 made it out of childhood. Broken bones were not an issue, but farm machinery & various diseases were.