hh on Nostr: It's not an unfair comparison really. For those people, the ruler was performing an ...
It's not an unfair comparison really. For those people, the ruler was performing an extremely important "public service", namely appeasing the gods. Which seen objectively is obviously bollocks. But so are all "public services" people in the West believe in. They have no basis in reality either other than the ruler telling them they must pay them to provide them.
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