Their values of humility, honor, faith, and so on are so different from our own imperatives of competition, survival of the fittest, and so on.
Yet I don’t keep slaves or have serfs. Your people of humility, honor, and faith did.
Maybe ancient people would have worked harder to ship slaves across oceans and displace more peoples, if only they had better sailing ships. They simply couldn’t afford to house prisoners in massive systems before the industrial era made food incredibly cheap.
I mean… yes? They had a problem doing lots of things well. Of course that means they couldn’t oppress very well either.
We are the ones who did these things, not them,
Only if you carefully define “moderns” to… not be modern. Blaming pogroms and the Spanish Inquision on “moderns” is blatantly distorting what most people mean by that in order to whitewash religion.
Yet I don’t keep slaves or have serfs. Your people of humility, honor, and faith did.
I mean… yes? They had a problem doing lots of things well. Of course that means they couldn’t oppress very well either.
Only if you carefully define “moderns” to… not be modern. Blaming pogroms and the Spanish Inquision on “moderns” is blatantly distorting what most people mean by that in order to whitewash religion.