The examples given only showed that of drinking only water, which I would say is exactly how we see people today.
If someone is only drinking water, so avoiding coffee, tea, soda, wine, beer, etc. we see it as something unusual. Normally as a sign of self-limitation either due to a self or medically imposed diet.
I haven't drank a glass of water in weeks, does that mean I avoid drinking water, or that I just have something better than water to drink?
Ascribing meaning into a choice with no knowledge or insight into the reasoning inherently creates falsehoods.
The Romans weren't masters of aquaducts just because they wanted to bathe in it. They drank it, they cooked with it. It's just absolutely silly to think people didn't drink water.
I don't drink coffee because my water isn't safe. I drink coffee because it tastes better than my tasteless water.
If someone is only drinking water, so avoiding coffee, tea, soda, wine, beer, etc. we see it as something unusual. Normally as a sign of self-limitation either due to a self or medically imposed diet.
I haven't drank a glass of water in weeks, does that mean I avoid drinking water, or that I just have something better than water to drink?
Ascribing meaning into a choice with no knowledge or insight into the reasoning inherently creates falsehoods.
The Romans weren't masters of aquaducts just because they wanted to bathe in it. They drank it, they cooked with it. It's just absolutely silly to think people didn't drink water.
I don't drink coffee because my water isn't safe. I drink coffee because it tastes better than my tasteless water.