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What did people do for entertainment back in the day? Was it
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What did people do for entertainment back in the day? Was it just minstrel shows, carnivals, and drinking?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_burning
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>>1084755
>According to Steven Pinker the assembled people "shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized."

I guess you could say that's pretty...

Ass.


(Seriously, that's incredibly fucked up. The French are fucking subhuman.)
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>>1084787
bruh this is fucked up desu
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>>1084787
This is why everyone in history has been a total fucker until now.

Unless we're doing something horrible now that people will resent us for a hundred years in the future.

Fuck, life is too complicated.
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>>1084755
Bloodsports, animal bloodsports, sex, sleeping, drunkenness, dancing, music, prayer, religious observance, crafts, athletics, hunting, war, labour.

Pretty much everything people do for gain.
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>>1084838
Fuck off back to your ethics class until you understand that ethics is a separate discipline to history and that historians don't judge the past's morality, but merely report their actions and their moralities.
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probably reading a fucking book
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