Yeah, you were just meant to "naturally" have 7 children, of which 2-4 die before they get a name. But the ones who live? They might make it past 60.
replyYeah people get that one wrong all the time. They don't realize what a bad argument it is.
replyI'm guessing they are ignorant of historical facts and are just repeating what they heard from somebody else.
People do get that wrong. But the corrected version is “you were supposed to die as a baby”, and…
replyThat doesn’t sound any better.
>That doesn't sound any better.
replyIt doesn't, because "it was so common to", as OP stated, is not the same thing as "you were supposed to". There's no reason it should be corrected, it's accurate.