[iammjm]

I read his "Meditations", and what I found there was mostly related to better ways of dealing with everyday hardships, and not a "justification of mass death and conquering of an empire". As to your claim about him being the "bloodiest most expansionist and slave oriented emperor", I think this is simply factually incorrect. Seems like you have a gripe with the Roman Empire in general, and you are missing the point of this thread.

[tsunamifury]

My guy. Please read even a little bit of history. He very likely killed almost 1% of the population of the known world at the time.