Quote:This is true, but they never represented the burning as a good act for the earthly life of the person being burnt. It was always a punishment, or a defense against something, never like "ooh, lucky you, being thrown into the fire!"Yeah but they thought it was good and that's why they did it. They thought it was justice.
They did recognize it was bad, which was why they were doing it at all.
And the idea of justice changed because opinions about justice changed.
But they are still opinions.