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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (88931)4/1/2003 7:18:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
> I guess your focusing on the relative and I'm focusing on the absolute.

Only relative to their era. You can't really ignore the progress humanity has made in 2000 years. The British should have known better.

> The Romans where more brutal then the British. Yes sometimes the British where more brutal.

Exactly. But the British had come so many years later after virtues of Christianity, Age of Wisdom, etc etc. So they should have never been as brutal.

> A lot of the Roman colonies and territories ceased to be Roman

While Rome was around, many colonies were better accepted as being "Roman" than any Arab was ever accepted as being British. After Rome, people reverted to be who they were. But there was no hate-by-design infrastructure in place to cause internal wars. To my knowledge, only the British and Stalin drew state lines in such a way.

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