[Spooky23]

People like this are usually driven by something missing within. Alexander understood this when he met Diogenes, and went to conquer the earth rather than deal with that.

There’s a reason pride is a sin in the Christian tradition. There’s a lesson to be reflect upon in the story of Alexander and Caesar... Ceasar’s conquest of Gaul was complete and epic. He slaughtered and enslaved a statistically significant proportion of the human race. He became rich beyond comprehension and built a legacy admired millennia later. Yet he died stabbed in the back by his friend, still unsatisfied.

[totalZero]

> People like this are usually driven by something missing within.

This premise is probably the least self-evident part of your argument, and yet you don't explain why you believe it to be true.

[lxw]

Another perspective (Nietzsche's) is that conquering is man's noble state, and that sin is an invention that allows people to pretend otherwise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality

[nairboon]

What exactly was Alexander missing?

[nostrademons]

Peace.