This is what gets me The story doesn't make any sense - what society has ever told people to stop getting married and having kids? - but people are somehow invested in turning the most culturally normative, often mandatory institution in Western history into an act of defiancehttps://twitter.com/wife_ofbrian/status/1228061807006404608 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The story does make sense with the idea that he helped people escape conscription by getting married. But then it's primarily an anti-war story.
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Replying to @ramendik
The story is a distorted version of the actual fact that Roman soldiers were prohibited from being married while serving, because the army was usually all-volunteer and stationed in foreign posts among non-citizens (to prevent their children from becoming citizens)
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