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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you're going to apply modern standards, there are no good people in most of human history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's correct, were all trash 🤗 further, I'm pretty sure his slaves didn't appreciate being slaves even at that time....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

They did not. But did having them automatically make him an irredeemably bad person by the standards of the time? Life is more complex than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The splendid little war.