[extropy-chat] Saving the Roman Empire...

[Mike Lorrey]

--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
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> --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > If one mans incompetence could destroy an empire,
> > then it needed destroying....
> > 
> 
> Would you still believe that if your wife and daughter
> were getting raped by Huns because some jack-ass that
> you didn't elect squandered the defense budget on
> elaborate parties, gladitorial games, and grain
> subsidies for the poor? 

People get the government, or lack of it, they deserve.

Moreover, don't impose modern morals on ancient Romans. Roman
patriarchs quite often sold their children into slavery, gave their
wives and daughters (who they typically saw more as lifestock than
persons) out as sexual playthings to guests or pimped them out as
prostitutes. All a Roman male was concerned about when the Huns invaded
was that they didn't kill or rape HIM. The Empire era Roman free male
was the primary reason the Republic failed and the Empire was set to
fall. By the late empire era, he was corrupt, decadent, and unwilling
to do his duty to defend the polis.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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