>>16037554>there was the black plague for onelasted for less than a decade, while the medieval age as a whole lasted for centuries
>religious proscecutionthats aryan
>witchhuntsthats aryan
>child laborthat still exists today throughout most of the world outside of the west, and if you're including children helping their parents on farms or as part of family businesses then yes, it still applies
>a life expectancy probably shorter than the age you are now.people did live shorter lives on average, but a large part of this boils down to infant/child mortality skewing the rates massively. besides, who wants to be alive in their seventies or eighties anyway?
<i don't even necessarily agree with OP since i would've probably been born into a family of land toiling serfs or died before the age of 5 (as is the same with most people, the vast majority of the users on this site are so dysgenic due to chemical imbalances, shitty nutrition, life circumstances, noxious additives in literally everything + modern medicine saving us that we wouldn't stand a chance in the middle ages) but these are reddity critiques of the medieval era