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Rome, both the Republic and the Empire, were based on institutional slavery.
So a Roman could legally kill their own slaves, or legally torture their own slaves, or legally break up slave families, or legally rape their own slaves, men, women and children, and they could legally work their slaves to death.
Jesus lived under the Roman Slave Empire and said not a word against institutional slavery. And Christianity supported institutional slavery right up to 1833 when the House of Commons abolished institutional slavery for the first time in history and sent the Royal Navy out into the Atlantic with orders to sink American slave ships.
Actually Christianity was a huge motivator for the abolition of slavery, Victor.
And you always talk about the superiority of Western logic in culture, and I'm pointing out that even Western logic has had its moral failures, and Rome and the United States are prime examples of that, as I was contrasting them to your Eastern examples.