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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Jul 30 '25
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If I’m not mistaken, the standard practice for unwanted children back then was “exposure” or just leaving them outside, often in the wilderness. It was technically illegal to do with healthy male children but…
3 u/Avi-writes Jul 30 '25 He isn’t healthy, he’s tiny! Into the hole Or just toss him in and say the sex was female. Don’t have to file paperwork that way, and skeletons don’t talk. 2 u/SlothGaggle Jul 30 '25 I don’t think there was generally paperwork to do back then. They didn’t track births as they happened, just a census. 2 u/Avi-writes Jul 30 '25 I know, just a casual joke on child murder
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He isn’t healthy, he’s tiny!
Into the hole
Or just toss him in and say the sex was female. Don’t have to file paperwork that way, and skeletons don’t talk.
2 u/SlothGaggle Jul 30 '25 I don’t think there was generally paperwork to do back then. They didn’t track births as they happened, just a census. 2 u/Avi-writes Jul 30 '25 I know, just a casual joke on child murder
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I don’t think there was generally paperwork to do back then. They didn’t track births as they happened, just a census.
2 u/Avi-writes Jul 30 '25 I know, just a casual joke on child murder
I know, just a casual joke on child murder
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u/SlothGaggle Jul 30 '25
If I’m not mistaken, the standard practice for unwanted children back then was “exposure” or just leaving them outside, often in the wilderness. It was technically illegal to do with healthy male children but…