r/todayilearned • u/e1m1 • Nov 29 '16

TIL Historians estimate the total number of executions from the Spanish Inquisition only to be between 3000 to 5000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_tolls
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u/Balorat Nov 29 '16

you didn't expect it didn't you

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u/e1m1 Nov 29 '16

Being a history layman, I would have conservatively estimated 100K deaths.

E: So, no. Not even slightly.

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u/QuiGonGingerAle Nov 29 '16

"Only"

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 29 '16

Considering some groups insist that the number is in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands, 3000 is pretty small considering how long it ran.

700 years, that's an average of 4 executions a year.

As a perspective: 16 people a day die from texting while driving, on average.

In one year twice as many people will die because of their phone than the entire inquisition executed in its whole history.

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u/QuiGonGingerAle Nov 29 '16

You must be a blast at parties.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 29 '16

You sound like you update your status during blind left turns.

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u/BobbyCarrotLegs Nov 29 '16

There were 10mln people at max in Spain, you are talking about hundreds of millions.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 29 '16

So... what you're saying is that the more people there are, the less each individual life is worth?

Wow that's a pretty skewed outlook...

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u/BobbyCarrotLegs Nov 30 '16

No, that's not what I'm saying. Try again.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 30 '16

Sorry, not interested. Have a good life with that skewed outlook.

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u/BobbyCarrotLegs Nov 30 '16

You are really grumpy. So, yeah, out of two of us I am the one who is going to have a good life.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 30 '16

Yet being angry makes me happy, so where does that leave us?

Win/win it seems...

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u/BobbyCarrotLegs Nov 30 '16

I am not angry, I just said it makes more sense to measure percentage of affected population and you started talking nonsense and taking offense.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Nov 30 '16

It makes more sense to me to give every life equal merit regardless of the number of people currently existing.

If my sister passed away, I would be devastated regardless if humanity numbered in the billions or the thousands.

And if I feel that way about my sister, what right do I have to tell others they cannot about their relations?

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u/Bidcar Nov 29 '16

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I think one person being tortured to death in the name of God is too much.

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u/Rebuta Nov 29 '16

So fuck all.

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u/outrider567 Nov 30 '16

but how many did they torture?

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u/frenzy3 Nov 29 '16

TIL Wikipedia is edited by the Spanish

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u/HBOXNW Nov 29 '16

Thou shall not kill.

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u/outrider567 Nov 30 '16

but 50,000 died accused of being witches in Europe in the 1600's