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Well, I think I've exhausted the points I want to make -- I was mostly concerned about the "pre-moderns were stupid line". Just two things briefly, the Greeks often had homosexual relationships with the boys they were mentoring. But it typically ended when the boy became a man, and there was disagreement in that society about just how healthy these sorts of relationships were.
And it seems like the misuse of sex messes people up more often and more significantly than the misuse of, say, guns. But I don't think I'll be able to convince you, so I'll let it drop.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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