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Re:Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal in... by DiggyJohnson on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:27AM (#31808564)
What you are calling their ignorance is their careful rebuttal. And what is so obvious and true to you is just an unbelievably liberal interpretation of history, and then going, for little to no reason, “I think it happened this way.”

Why is it so unlikely that the aggrieved person carved this himself?

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Re:Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal in... by ncmncm on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:28AM (#31811512)
It is not unlikely at all.

Carving it himself -- or herself, we don't have any indication who, or that it was even a soldier who was aggrieved -- is one of many possibilities.

What is ignorant is to insist only the one alternative, among many, is possible, and that slaves were never ordered to do tedious chores, and that a soldier (or whoever) could not have had a slave, and that said slave could not be literate. All officious BS: what we have is a rock. What we know is, exactly, that somebody carved it.

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