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Given that today we expect war crimes not to occur, how will people know that they did or didn't occur in Antiquity if not told explicitly so? The bigger problem is being so unspecific about the atrocities committed.
> Given that today we expect war crimes not to occur, To what gauge? What was the last warcrimes-free war to occur?
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Funny how these articles seldom mentioned the war crimes of the sympathetic side. Like how these rebellions started by killing all Romans in the province, after raping the women and children first of course.
Those rebellions in those provinces start after Romans export half of the population as slaves and send the rest to work in the local mines. There's the catch. Actually, its worse - even if you were a saintly society neighboring Rome or within the reach of Rome, Rome would invent a 'reason' to invade you if you had something they wanted or they lacked enough slaves. Like how the Syracuse invasion was done on literall…
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Those rebellions in those provinces start after Romans export half of the population as slaves and send the rest to work in the local mines. There's the catch. Actually, its worse - even if you were a saintly society neighboring Rome or within the reach of Rome, Rome would invent a 'reason' to invade you if you had something they wanted or they lacked enough slaves. Like how the Syracuse invasion was done on literall…
Only half? That's so civilised. Inter tribal wars ended with all the men dead or in slavery, all the old women murdered and all the young women taken in as sex slaves. Same for the children too.
Well yes, that's true. But one could consider the central Italian unification wars as even nastier affairs. However yes, its not like Romans were not as brutal in other periods as they were in social wars...
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There is a difference between larping and culture. If you can't understand that you're probably larping thinking its culture.
> you can't understand that you're probably larping thinking its culture We’ve been telling others their culture isn’t real for about as long as we’ve been inventing ethnicities.
Give it another 60 years and Macedonians will be on par with Israelis for a made up nation that is now real. We aren't there yet because there are people alive and well in their 40s who know just how made up it all is, since they were the ones that made it up.
This is a very hard concept to explain to liberal americans because they have no culture or nation. Thinking the wrong thoughts gets you excommunicated and what those wrong thoughts are changes constantly. So they have to constantly think about what acceptable behaviour is.