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>What do you think the kings and queens of old did other than assigning blame when a problem came up? When rare unforeseeable stuff happened they chalked up to
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>What do you think the kings and queens of old did other than assigning blame when a problem came up?
When rare unforeseeable stuff happened they chalked up to god.
Violence was reserved for the people who genuinely screwed up.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI'm not sure that the wives of Henry VIII would really agree with this. Nor, for that matter, Thomas More.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago>I'm not sure that the wives of Henry VIII would really agree with this And neither would Vicky Weaver. Henry VIII's wives and Thomas more got murdered for political reasons. We still do that shit today, but in less quantity. We prefer to just ruin people's careers which is basically just a modern equivalent of exile. What happened to the advisors and commanders of the Spanish Armada who's mistakes lost them a fleet? Pretty much nothing because everyone was like "welp, can't predict the weather".