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I mean, that just isn't true. There are amazon tribes today where they just send them down the river to die... your ideas are a disney-fied version of a false past that never existed.
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Unspecified Amazon tribes don't represent the lion's share of historical treatment of aging populations. One negative example doesn't undermine the point.
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They're right. We've found remains that show how thousands of years ago people took care of people that would have died without external assistance.

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-patagonian-hunter-disa...

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