It seems to me that most of the world up until recently with the discovery of therapy and psychology did not seem to value any heart type values except for romance. I’ve always been amazed at how emotionally devoid of empathy people have been up until the mid 20th-21st century.

Take for example the First Servile War and the Third Servile War where in the first war 20,000 slaves were crucified and 6000 in the 3rd after they rebelled due to the cruel and inhuman ways in which they were treated. If people had more empathy and consideration for peoples emotions and humanity then these occurrences might have never happened. Instead when they rebellions were put down the slaves were crucified (which is basically torture) and the army acted as if this was a form of justice and retribution. Or in the Spanish Inquisition which lasted 400 years from the 15th century to the 19th century in which the government was allowed to torture people to allow confessions of guilt to avoid being burned to death. Life during the inquisition seemed very black/whiteish in its ethics and I’m not sure if was the power seeking of the kings in an 8ish way or the fact that they hid this power seeking behind what might be seen as unhealthy 1ish morality. Either way, there didn’t seem to be much gray/neutrality to peoples ethics in these times or color to their emotional intelligence. I guess I just don’t understand how people can take their punishments so far or ever felt the need to physically harm people to “punish” them.

Or was it just a period of unhealthy gut type-ish ethics that had been distorted to suit the kings and queens and those in power however they pleased?

I realize that ethics is important, but so are heart values too. If people had more care for how others felt than maybe they wouldn’t have needed to go so far with these “punishments” for unethical behavior such as having public flogging and people cheering and smiling while it happened. Yes, occasionally people do need to be “punished” even though I’m so sensitive I hate the idea of it, but did those in power have to do it so harshly and without any emotional intelligence and with such abuse?

I posted this on a different forum but it didn’t get many answers that seemed too healthy so I’m hoping people on here can get where I’m coming from.