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Huge crowds watched people kill each other in Colloseums. Huge crowds cheered as people were executed, as a matter of course. It was entertainment. So, were a
by antepodius 7y ago
Huge crowds watched people kill each other in Colloseums.
Huge crowds cheered as people were executed, as a matter of course. It was entertainment.
So, were all those societies of the past being harmed and corrupted by their entertainment in a broad-sce way? In a way we can see in retrospect, that caused them to become worse than they already were?
- pvg 7y agoThose societies were worse off because they valued human life less and this was reflected in their entertainment. Seems like a reasonably unobjectionable no-brainer.
- johnchristopher 7y agoYeah, but "no humans or electrical gods were harmed in the making of this video-game" ?