• @Rolando
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    98 months ago

    “Can you give me an example of a high-stakes, high-pressure situation that you succesfully handled in the past?”

  • @radiohead37
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    58 months ago

    Did this kind of thing exist in the past? How could the crowds enjoy such sadism?

    • PugJesusOP
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      88 months ago

      The Romans themselves noted that the games of the arena were often too bloody for foreigners who had not been raised to enjoy such things - and their contemporaries were not exactly ‘delicate’. So it’s certainly gruesome.

      But another matter is that a scene like this, of an unarmed man being torn apart by animals, is more akin to a public execution than the gladiator games - those sentenced to die in this way, noxii, were men convicted of (what the Romans saw as) serious offenses.