Parapolikala

If stoicism is good life advice, why was Commodus such a fuckup?

I can't believe Ridley Scott lied to me.

How can you justify the psychological torture - reform, training to be "useful members of society", ergotherapy, and so on - you inflict on people, knowing that in other jurisdictions - Saudi Arabia, the US, China, etc - humane alternatives (beatings, decapitation, death) are practised?