[Freeciv] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nations policy version 2

[Stephen Hodge <stephenh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Enrico Fracasso wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Stephen Hodge wrote:
> > My question is: should we be excluding the likes of Stalin and Hitler
> > because their attrocities where committed recently, yet allow the Julius
> > Caesers, and the Atilas just because they did their evils a few thousand
> > years earlier? And then the way I play (destroying cities completely if
> > their position is not good) maybe Stalin and Hitler would be
> > appropriate.
> >
> Julius Caesar destroied a lot of cities, but he didn't kill 6 bilion
> people only becuse he didn't like it! There's a big difference

No one has killed 6 billion people. I'm not getting into a debate about
it but the Romans did persecute other nationalities, and they also keep
slaves. They may not have been as bad as Hitler and Stalin, they may
have been worse, they were certainly 'up there'.

Regards,
Steve Hodge