I can't go into more detail via short tweets, but I plan to spend the next few weeks discussing this topic in more depth on my blog (https://acoup.blog/ ), which will put some citations and data behind what I've said above.
I think I should be clear on this point - I am not arguing that Rome was better than Sparta. I am arguing that Sparta was *bad* in an absolute sense.
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Honestly no. The system can't exist without its brutality - even for the Spartiates (What is the agoge but a system for brutalizing children into soldiers, much like what groups like the Lord's Resistance Army does?).
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