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> Rome never developed intentional industrial extermination of human lives as a deliberate state policy. Uh, except perhaps for a few centuries worth of persec
by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> Rome never developed intentional industrial extermination of human lives as a deliberate state policy.
Uh, except perhaps for a few centuries worth of persecuting Christians, subjecting them to tortures and deliberately putting them to death by the thousands, creating a basis for the veneration of martyrs in the years to come? Except for that, Rome really didn't intentionally exterminate human lives, right?
- southernplaces7 1y agoSo, you completely confused two very obviously qualitatively different things there, and completely misunderstood what I said. The majority of states, historically and today, sporadically or sometimes intensely take human lives to some degree, but this is very different from something like the policy the Nazis applied of wholesale, mass industrialized genocide of entire ethnic/religious classifications of people in the shortest possible time. As quickly as possible exterminating men, women and children using industrial infrastructure, without consideration for anything except destroying them completely until they were gone from the world. This (again, obviously) is qualitatively and quantitatively very different from the Romans persecuting and sometimes killing Christians across several centuries.