(January 5, 2020 at 12:51 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:Quote:The Roman-style allowed for fair elections, allowed for multi-cultural world; allowed for respect to the law -which Rome did-.
I don't think you know much about history. The Roman Republic was an oligarchy and the Empire was a dysfunctional dynasty. Neither had anything approaching fair elections. Try Athens instead. They're a few streets over and a couple of centuries ahead of the Romans in terms of governance. The Roman "multicultural world" included such high-minded advances as the destruction of the Second Temple period in Israel and the Sack of Carthage, just to name a few of the more prominent ones. They are the culture that coined the term decimation. Their "respect for law" amounted to imposing it at sword point and then ignoring it when it became inconvenient.
Go read a history book so you can make some arguments that don't sound utterly ignorant.
Rome had a senate. I'm not discussing other cultures; but discussing the Roman culture that had a senate and carried out "voting".
I didn't say Rome is a role model; but I did say that it was so much better than other cultures -like the Persian-.
They had huge sins that led their society to be divided into eastern and western; and the biggest sin of all: forging a new bible to suit the sick needs of their emperors.
But when somebody does something good you have to give it to them. When somebody does a good deed be fair; at least that's what God tells Muslims to do. So let us give it to Rome: compare them to the Mongols to get my point.
