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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (88934)	4/1/2003 7:27:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Only relative to their era. You can't really ignore the progress humanity has made in 2000 years. You can if the question is which you would rather live in. I think that if you have to be part of a subject race in an empire its better to be part of the empire that has had the advantage of that progress rather then the empire that does such a "good" job considering they don't have the advantage of that progress. But there was no hate-by-design infrastructure in place to cause internal wars. I'm not sure I understand what you mean but that. Certainly the Romans did try to pit potential enemies against each other. Tim

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (88934)	4/2/2003 5:09:51 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

The British should have known better. They did. . Much Colonial behaviour was the subject of parliamentary investigation and a great deal of public criticism. As a result overseas behaviour improved. The British behaved no worse and probably far better than than their European and other contemporaries. With regard to a comparison between the Roman and British empires, I expect the atrocity list for the former would be far longer, although I can't see what the utility of the comparison is. The British were already starting to get out of the Empire business by the mid 19th century. Unfortunately WW1 made a severe mess of the project and post WW2 pressures made the withdrawal from remaining possessions far more hasty than it should have been.