Arrogant Slave - Ch. 32 - Divine Protection

[mrmuffinman16]

What are you even talking about? Chemical contamination poisons the well, that's the literal definition, and I pointed out arsenic as one common chemical well contaminant that is a poison and could lead to death.

My man, if that’s arsenic poisoning then my morning poop is dysentery

 

[Abricomas]

My man, if that’s arsenic poisoning then my morning poop is dysentery

Acute arsenic toxicity leads to vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, and discolorations on the body, before death. How is that different from what we saw of the dead townspeople who drank from the well?
And as I said, arsenic is just one common contaminant; it could be some other chemical contaminant, or a lethal mixture of different metals and compounds.

What makes you think arsenic poisoning isn’t a serious issue?

 

[mrmuffinman16]

Acute arsenic toxicity leads to vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, and discolorations on the body, before death. How is that different from what we saw of the dead townspeople who drank from the well?
And as I said, arsenic is just one common contaminant; it could be some other chemical contaminant, or a lethal mixture of different metals and compounds.

What makes you think arsenic poisoning isn’t a serious issue?

It doesn’t do that unless someone dumps literal pure arsenic in the water

 

[Abricomas]

It doesn’t do that unless someone dumps literal pure arsenic in the water

Yes, but what’s your point? It can’t be arsenic because it would have to be nearly pure arsenic, the chemical that is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, and so wouldn’t be detected unless a chemical analysis is done of the water, and only 1/8 of a teaspoon is lethal?

Why couldn’t it be arsenic? It could be in the ground and leached into the aquifer, as happens sometimes with wells, and it isn’t easily detected. It’s a toxin that only requires a small amount to kill, so why can’t it be what poisoned the well?

 

[mrmuffinman16]

Yes, but what’s your point? It can’t be arsenic because it would have to be nearly pure arsenic, the chemical that is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, and so wouldn’t be detected unless a chemical analysis is done of the water, and only 1/8 of a teaspoon is lethal?

Why couldn’t it be arsenic? It could be in the ground and leached into the aquifer, as happens sometimes with wells, and it isn’t easily detected. It’s a toxin that only requires a small amount to kill, so why can’t it be what poisoned the well?

Wdym “yes but what’s your point”? If yes then someone actually poisoned the water is what

 

[Abricomas]

Wdym “yes but what’s your point”? If yes then someone actually poisoned the water is what

Arsenic can be found naturally dissolved in well water. The concentration varies, but it can be lethal. No one has to have intentionally dumped arsenic into the well for it to have collected a fatal level of arsenic naturally.
What's your argument that it can't be naturally occurring arsenic contamination?
Lethal levels of arsenic can be found naturally in the environment, and it can leach into sources of water. So why couldn't the concentration be high enough to cause the symptoms we saw?

 

[mrmuffinman16]

Arsenic can be found naturally dissolved in well water. The concentration varies, but it can be lethal. No one has to have intentionally dumped arsenic into the well for it to have collected a fatal level of arsenic naturally.
What's your argument that it can't be naturally occurring arsenic contamination?
Lethal levels of arsenic can be found naturally in the environment, and it can leach into sources of water. So why couldn't the concentration be high enough to cause the symptoms we saw?

1: This very good filtration they already built
2: The holy water runs through the same damn ground

 

[TestAddress]

My weekly dose of

 

[Abricomas]

1: This very good filtration they already built
2: The holy water runs through the same damn ground

That’s not a filter, that’s just to keep the well from collapsing.
You have no evidence that the two sources are pulling from the same underground water table, aside from them being in the ground. They’re separated by distance (one in the center of town, the other is outside the town in the forest), so they could, and likely are, two different sources of water.

What indication shows that is a filter? Because the sources I’ve seen for how wells are constructed don’t show that the stone provides any filtering.

 

[mrmuffinman16]

That’s not a filter, that’s just to keep the well from collapsing.
You have no evidence that the two sources are pulling from the same underground water table, aside from them being in the ground. They’re separated by distance (one in the center of town, the other is outside the town in the forest), so they could, and likely are, two different sources of water.

What indication shows that is a filter? Because the sources I’ve seen for how wells are constructed don’t show that the stone provides any filtering.

The well wall is constructed with rocks, rocks filter water. Porous material filters water, that’s all. Iron in rocks specifically filter arsenic

 

[Abricomas]

The well wall is constructed with rocks, rocks filter water. Porous material filters water, that’s all. Iron in rocks specifically filter arsenic

For one, that's only what we see above the ground. We don't know if the well wall actually extends down below the water level.
Second, arsenic might be filtered out by rocks, but the opposite can also happen. Water can leach arsenic out of rocks, so just because rocks can be used to filter water doesn't necessarily mean that the well wall will filter out arsenic.

Arsenic is found to contaminate ground water and wells despite the water being filtered through rocks and porous materials to collect in the aquifer, so how is the well wall, assuming that it even goes down far enough to filter the majority of the water, going to remove the arsenic?

 

[chusetto]

BRUH

 

[IbnAurum]

So miscommunication/ignorance killed the town? Lmao love this whimsical dark

 

[LordofAlI]

Bruh so the cult was actually right?

 

[deathmailrock]

So if the people who drank from the well did die from drinking the well water, who brought all the corpses out into the square? The cult? Some random person? Either way, it's ironic that the cult was actually right in this case and now the entire town is probably doomed.

No, the cult was basically blamed for the well being undrinkable because they executed innocent people...

And now, the spring is the only clean source....

So the town is still going to be fine...

 

[Carn109]

Should've accepted the ways of the happy water cult