gl5211 said:well wasn't in the past the women considered part of the "spoils of war" and raping and pillaging par for the course?
Anyone remember Dave Allen's gay Viking -
Viking 1: 'Kill the women & rape the men!'
Viking 2: 'Don't you mean "kill the men, rape the women?"'
Viking 1: '(Blows kiss) You play your games, I'll play mine...'
gl5211 said:I am always amazed when people tell me oh we live in horrible dangerous times, people are so much worse today...when every history book or text i have ever read contradicts this. If anything i think the opposite is true. Of course not in every part of the world, but as we have civilised over the last several hundred years i think our cruelty to each other has much decreased. Just my own humble opinion.
Yeah - in WWI, the nasty Hun invaded Belgium, raped nuns, and bayonetted babies. Actually, they didn't. However, in WWII, they apparently did... (or close enough).
I would reckon that man's cruelty has actually increased over the years, to meet up with the mythic tales from yesteryear - the former Yugoslavia didn't have time, or secrecy enough, to construct concentration (death) camps, but they had time to ethnically cleanse...