[buzzkillington]

The majority of people are disarmed and happy to be defenseless because "Won't someone think of the murdered children in schools!".

>Egalitarianism has meant a lack of luxury relative to what was possible at the time, but a better baseline for the population as a whole.

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The population of China was larger than any of the time and the majority lived in poverty so great the Europeans who visited were shocked by it.