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The Cost Benefit of an Analysis
I think if you are Cicero in an age where the difference between how poor people live and how aristocrats live, empirically, you could see why you would think almost that poor people were a different species. I also think this is sort of a paltillate point, but like one of the reasons why people cared so much about their eternal soul and the afterlife in pre-modern Europe is because the current life was so bad and everyone was dying all over the place. It's okay to go to war and lose a lot of peasants or lower casts kind of thing. But theologically overturned over time as the median human being is seen as more worthy than it was necessarily in the