Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 6, 2015'Fair', 800 BC: king is merciful, does not play favorites. 800 AD: fraternal compassion a la Christianity, Islam. 1200 AD: Baron rights...228
@mwiik·Dec 6, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr Wasn’t 800 BC w/laws like: if you kill someone’s first-born son, they get to kill your first-born son? Seems perfectly fair.11