[rexpop]

Do you likewise idealize chattel slavers' plantations? Eichmann's bureaucracy?

What do you emulate from King Leopold's "colorful" subjugation of the Congo? How do you coach subordinates to follow the example of the conquistadors who plundered Latin America?

Are we so short of winning "good guys" that we must plumb the depths of evil for role models?

> The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

[connorpeters]

Of course not. We must however be reminded in the West that weakness is not the same as goodness and that all the pontificating on virtues doesn't matter if your society can be dominated by another (ie. Athens losing to Sparta). My problem with the article and your response is the notion that anyone interested in the (supposed) military capability of the Spartans are de facto Nazis, when in fact it might just be interesting history we can still learn from. There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.

[rexpop]

> Of course not.

Why not? There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.