When I first started doing Latin, textbooks tended to treat ancient slavery as sort of okay, because it was not race-based. I remember the phrase “Laeti servi sunt”, “the slaves are happy”, along wit… (View Post)

Pure selfishness, too. The only way you can live with taking people as slaves and selling them, is to dehumanise them in some way. (View Post)

Religion can certainly be used to dehumanise others. But plenty of non-religious causes of dehumanisation exist. (View Post)

“I think I’m the real victim, here.” (View Post)

Human beings in most societies worldwide, are incredibly individualistic now, compared to our ancestors. Societies based upon low-productivity agriculture, could not survive, without people placing t… (View Post)