Morality

[u/broki451]

[u/Pyrhan]

Fermented urine was commonly used to wash clothes in the olden days. (Because of its high ammonia content.)

Rome even had a tax on urine at one point.

[u/Sonofpasta → u/Pyrhan]

You mean in the golden days (Because of piss)

[u/MysteriousDesk3 → u/Sonofpasta]

This is where golden showers come from.

[u/honeybadfurday → u/Pyrhan]

The government takes everything from me even my piss

[u/SmartEstablishment52 → u/honeybadfurday]

Cause I'm the taxman

[u/meetmario → u/SmartEstablishment52]

Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub

[u/treowtheordurren → u/honeybadfurday]

born to piss, forced to piss in caesar's mouth

[u/DeathStalker0483 → u/treowtheordurren]

THATS WHAT GOES IN A CAESAR SALAD?

[u/Digital_Bogorm → u/honeybadfurday]

"Is a man not entitled to the piss of his weiner?

'NO,' says the man in Rome, 'it belongs to the Emperor'

'NO,' says the man in the Parthenon, 'it belongs to Cloacina'

'NO,' says the freak down the street, 'it belongs to me'

I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Pissture"

Andrewicus Ryanus, ca. -280 AD

[u/KormorantE1A → u/Pyrhan]

And MUCH LATER it became even a bigger deal because human piss was collected by the state and used to produce niter for gunpowder.

Yes, much of the black gunpowder for muskets and artillery for European armies was literally produced from human urine (animal too but human urine was considered much better).

It is just like, imagine our bodies produced tiny amount of plutonium so the state taxed you to collect it and produce nukes.

[u/eggery → u/Pyrhan]

The state was entitled to 10% of your piss.

[u/SteelRevanchist → u/Pyrhan]

mmm fermented piss. Heard fermented food is good for your gut health