![]() Of course the things he did to do this were decidedly dickish, but were they any different from what other emperors of senators did? I think that is a super-important point to stress, the difference between being evil in a evil setting, and to create a new setting that is more evil than the previous one, and I think that a big part in what makes Mr. Caligula did seems to be more what was accepted, and sometimes “needed” to consolidate his political grip on the senate, the praetorian guard and on Rome. For example, HItler, Stalin and Koch were active in creating and/or upholding new systems of evilness (genocide, the camps etc), and Bundy created a very personal system of evilness (centered on himself and his actions) that were in a big part new. Caligula, but I think that the evilness of a dude or a dame should be judged against the context of what level of evilness that can be expected in the setting in where they live.
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