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In the viral Bill Maher video on Presentism, he mentions that slavery was a common practice because people were generally more brutal in the past. Should the general decrease in brutality over history be more contested taking into account ancient India and China?

by /u/jsd_bookreview_acc in /r/AskHistorians

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