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you're vastly underestimating how frequently people lost their fingers back in those times
carpentry, farm accidents, even simple manual labor and shipping incidents with something as simple as a mishandled crate or barrel affording half of your dominant hand

most male laborers from the histories before machinery assistance died with about half their original stock of digits and toes and saw no wrong in it - they were just men made of firmer things than our softer times