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Originally posted by Colin
Many of us accept battle, defeat, and death in the animal kingdom proclaiming "that's evolution, nature's way of eliminating or reducing the weaker species". Many of us think that is good, too.
Might the same principle not work with societies? The strong survive. The weak perish. That it is good.
Was it good for the human species for the Romans to wipe out a society of "barbarians" and replace their society with the technology, skills and art of Roman society?
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Good question. Until someone you love is the victim of "nature's way of eliminating/reducing the weaker species".
Your 10 year old daughter is kidnapped, raped and murdered. The weak should perish?
Your wife is abducted and sexually tortured before her death. The strong always survive?
All of your relatives are slaughtered in an errant allied bomb strike. That's nature's way of fleshing out the weaklings?
Roman society stole most of their gods from the Greeks, used lead pipes for most of their water supply, and supplicated their enemies with threat of horrible torture if they did not join their empire (and usually slaughtered them anyhow).
It's not cut-and-dried. I assume you know that, and just want to pose an interesting question. It *is* a valid question, however.