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[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you're going to apply modern standards, there are no good people in most of human history.

[โ€“] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's correct, were all trash ๐Ÿค— further, I'm pretty sure his slaves didn't appreciate being slaves even at that time....

[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They did not. But did having them automatically make him an irredeemably bad person by the standards of the time? Life is more complex than that.