We're All Humans, You Know?

i wish i couldv remember who, many years ago, comparing and contrasting a leading roman citizen of the late republic with a professor of english at harvard. And it waso like, the romans absolutely believed in yo killing people and gladiator sports,. The patra familius having the right of life or death over everybody in his household. Military valor was the only real value. But if you think ouw, it's very easy to say, oh, you know, roman empires. Ad, there were public executions in the eighteenth century in hals barbaric. No, no, we absolutely still do those things that they're often for profit prisons, or

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