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by spookie 235 days ago
Looking into the past everyone looks like a barbarian. And yes, the use of the word was meant as sarcasm.
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Not so. There are plenty of cultures that don't follow this. Off the top of my head I can think of the Sami people for whom we have zero archeological evidence of wars. They are not unique either. It just so happens that the barbaric cultures spread more rapidly than the peaceful ones