u/dovetc

For well over 1000 years most western medicine was based on this notion that health was a function of balance within the four humors. Obviously the whole thing has been debunked in the modern age, but do we know of things that pre-modern doctors were doing that modern medicine would recognize as being likely to produce a good result despite the basis being incorrect.

One example I had heard of was that in some effort to balance either the hot/cold or wet/dry aspect of a person's humors there was a treatment to boil a horseshoe in wine then drink the wine. The premise was false, but the effect would have been to partially help correct an iron deficiency which has actual medical value in some cases.

A court in Texas just sentenced this guy to death for the murder (among other things) of a 7 year old girl. Dead to rights. Caught on camera. Admitted it. A more evil act you will never imagine.

And yet I see people commenting on the case trying to square their anti-death penalty principles with the undeniable truth that justice demands this monster die and soon.

If you can't recognize that justice demands the harshest possible measures that society is capable of mustering for one such as this then there's something seriously not right with your moral compass.

The fact that he's still polluting the Earth with his presence in 2026 for a crime we had him dead to rights on back in 2022 is already an incredible miscarriage of justice.

It's okay to have the nuanced position that you are broadly against the use of the death penalty but recognize situations where it is appropriate, right, and good.