As in all other slave societies, it was the profitability of slavery that determined its preeminence in Athens.
Like most Asian societies, it used to be incredibly family-centered.
For people in Western societies, it is usually easy: look at the person's face.
Is that too much to ask? Apparently in western societies it is.
Given the skewed demographic profile of many slave societies, it is not surprising that they failed to do so.
In sex negative societies it is the other way around: sex is purely for procreation and not for pleasure.
Barbarism seems to be the order of the day for many societies; it shouldn't be for ours.
In advanced consumer societies, it is said, these "narcissistic" values are more and more the concern of men as well.
If you look at what has to be done, in some societies, it is a different problem than in others.
This does not make people equally culpable for it, and in unequal, exploitative societies, it clearly doesn't imply comparable benefit.
When obesity started to become recognised as a problem in western societies, it too was blamed on saturated fats.
