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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7165740" data-attributes="member: 15700">Again, you're ascribing things from aristocrat or wealthy to the comfort category.  Nowhere under comfort does it say you have a bathroom.  And historically, only the very wealthy had access to bathrooms or bathtubs in inns (in the context of what you're describing them as).Again with the fallacies.  For one, your argument is only true if someone robbed or beaten in the city has protection.  Well, we all know that's not true.  Technically there is a police force of some sort in most cities, even back then, but people got beaten and robbed with impunity often.  If you're going to deny that, then I don't know what to tell you.Secondly, someone out in the woods on their own doesn't meet people to get robbed in the first place.  I can't think of a single instance of a highway man robbing a woodsman.  Even historically.  They were all on roads or other populated areas where there are actual targets to rob.  I'm not saying it's never happened, but it would be at such an infrequent level that it's hardly a benefit to claim "police protection" when a) good chance you won't get that protection in the city anyway, and b) the risk of being robbed is so low it's probably never going to happen.  Certainly not a benefit when you consider that you have to pay for that protection in the first place.  It would be like telling someone it's a benefit for them to pay car insurance when they don't ever drive or be around a car.  Not exactly a selling point in your favor.</blockquote>

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