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Originally Posted by pip08456
.Just goes to prove Councillors have nothing better to do.
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Indeed, does it matter?
Look from our perspective, it is screamingly obvious that these women* were badly treated. But by the (wrong from our perspective) standards of the time, they were judged guilty and punished accordingly.
Tell me, if their ‘convictions'; be quashed, what would it achive? They have been dead for almost 400 years.
maybe keep well alone and use it as an example of how things were seen differently in the past.
* not entirely women, there were some men, but the majority were women - we might consider the paternalistic bias of the time. But it was what it was. I’d like to think things are different now.