>>"everyone is doing it" or "they might do it to us, so we should do it to them first" are not really valid excuses. Not a relevant answer to what I wrote. I

>>"everyone is doing it" or "they might do it to us, so we should do it to them first" are not really valid excuses. Not a relevant answer to what I wrote. I noted, amongst others, that the atrocities in question were SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) of the non-modern times. So no (heart felt, at least) excuses were generally needed... Edit: Please don't do as others here and insist on judging (just the) western society of X centuries ago after our present moral standards. I'm misanthropic enough. (I'm sorry if I addressed that comment to the wrong recipient. It seemed you were continuing the argument from previous comments.)