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Comment author: juliawise 01 January 2012 04:16:48PM 13 points [-]

Infanticide has been considered a normal practice in a lot of cultures. The Greeks and Romans, for example, don't seem to have been run down by psychopaths.

I don't think we have a good way to know about the later harmful actions of people who kill their infants. Either we find them out and lock them up, in which case their life is no longer really representative of the population, or we don't know about what they've done.

Comment author: Strange7 05 June 2012 04:24:57AM 0 points [-]

The Greeks and Romans, for example, don't seem to have been run down by psychopaths.

Not sure I'd agree, there. Rome had institutionalized blood sports, and mass rioting when the entertainment was interrupted.