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Nice, that has nothing to do with anything I said. You made a stupidly historically inaccurate point and I just wanted to correct that.

Again not seeing a lot of evidence of it being widespread, and there is a massive difference between “I can kill anyone I want for any reason” and “violating the social customs towards those who are above you can receive the death penalty.”

Do you have any evidence at all that this was widespread? This reeks of revisionist prima nocta and small pox blankets type shit. And no, just because a word exists doesn’t make it common. It’s a politically useful tool the same way small pox blankets are. Defenestration also has a word for it...