@Imperious:
Yea sure so just read Porno and Comics and see how that fairs you.
Thanks, I will. Although, watching porn is far more entertaining than reading it. Personal preference, though.
@Imperious:
First, the classics are loaded with stories of violence.
Yes but not WWF style violence with guys in tights and dumb yellow shoes. You can watch Benny Hill for that.
Right. The violence in the classics is far more brutal. For example, the Iliad describes Achilles dragging Hector’s dead body with his chariot around the walls of Troy. My favorite book, A Tale of Two Cities, describes a child being run over by a carriage, a courtyard with a grinding wheel where mobs of fanatical blood-covered “patriots” would run to have their bloody weapons re-sharpened so they could return to the slaughter, and the intense feelings of dread and fear as people, including children, were forcibly taken to their deaths in front of jeering crowds. Slightly more dark than getting kicked by dumb yellow shoes.
@Imperious:
This is a highly generalized claim. Take the examples of Henry VIII, Leopold and Loeb, the Spanish Inqusition, and the Roman Empire. And those are just scratching the surface. History is littered with examples of well educated intelligent people committing horrible atrocities, whether by their own hand or by their command.
Sure consider the population of Prisons and how many incarcerated have low education credentials. Access to education changed in modern times and the greater acts of evil were committed in the past due to lack of education out of ignorance.
You’re switching from reading the classics to education as your focus. But, even then, I have more examples. Julius Caesar had tens of thousands of Gallic people slaughtered for no reason other than to terrorize the population into obedience. How about Josef Mengele or the Japanese doctors who experimented on the Chinese at Unit 731? What about the people who ordered the bombings of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? None had military value. They were nothing but mass murder of civilian populations for the purpose of terrorizing the population into surrendering. Here’s a modern example that’s going on right now. President Assad of Syria is ordering his own people to be massacred by the hundreds and thousands.
The greater acts of evil were NOT committed in the past due to lack of education out of ignorance. The greatest acts of evil have almost always been the exclusive realm of well-educated intelligent people. And I’m pretty sure some of those guys read the classics and not comic books.