Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "Empire of Psychopaths: What Lead the Romans to be Quite so Brutal? DEBUNKED" video.

  1. Gold? You know everyone had access to salt, right? From princes to paupers. You literally cannot live without it, not without severe physical and psychological symptoms. Comparing access to gold and access to salt is rather absurd, for the aforementioned reason
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  2.  @salavat294  yes it was: "Then salting the earth would make as much sense as ploughing gold coins into the ground." Don't bne weak
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  3. Scipio Africanus was an outstanding anomaly, perhaps to the same degree as Hannibal (in terms of military genius). Using an outlier doesn't make much sense, especially since Consul Varro, Consul Paullus, ProConsul Servilius, and Marcus Minucius Rufus were fairly retarded with regard to their respective military strategies (their lives and careers overlapped with Scipio Africanus). There's also no evidence that Carthage would have razed Rome; they hadn't done anything like that to the Numidians, Libyans and Mauretanians to control North Africa. Carthage's destruction was total. The Carthaginians were forbidden from rebuilding their city; it lay in ruins for over 50 years because of that. The Romans were driven mad with fear that another Hannibal would arise. Nobody really knows why Hannibal didn't attack Rome after Trasimene, but if it was because he expected terms, then he was far from a blood-thirsty general. Hannibal was constantly undone by Hanno II back in the Carthaginian senate, whose intention was anything but the single-minded destruction of Rome (he didn't have bloodlust, but he was no angel, he was a self-serving political wrangler who was scared Hannibal would return as king or kingmaker)
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