Originally Posted by
Dauphin
Suffering is not inherently evil, and in fact can be a way by which great people are made. Violence is something constant and it will remain constant til the end of days. I don't see how you could consider modern America to be the moral superior to Ancient Greece simply because the latter practiced slavery. It seems abundantly clear to me that we're lacking in any concept of justice, sublimity, heroic virtue, etc. We're a dying culture that's convinced itself that it's the height of human progress.