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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Slavery of the Time, a Minomatiana

The text says that you shouldn't torture petty criminals or drunks or children, or the elderly or pregnant women. You can beat with a stick, with whips, o hang people upside down. So there are ways. It's trying to create a practical world. And in a way, we have such high expectations of the classical world and of these texts,. This is what it meant, and in some ways still means.

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