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This isn't really Western Civ because it was in Vietnam but this article raises some interesting issues:4000-year-old paraplegic foundIf you read the short article, the question they ask is why on earth a society would help care for a paraplegic enough to help him get through 20+ years of life. Thoughts?
Maybe the people in his turn were just decent folks and thought everybody deserves a chance to live.
I wonder, if the mortality rate was high then the inclination may have been to tend to the sick. This particular birth defect may have had a special significance. Maybe it was predicted, maybe the social group was astonished that he survived birth and was therefore endowed with special gifts, annointed as Wally said. I think he probably made a significant contribution to the group, a savant if you like.
