ANcient Rome versus Modern America

Roman matrons often did not go out without an escort.

Roman matrons often did not go out without an escort.

However it was not uncommon for women to have large influence as individuals in the society
and they was not look down on as women are in many current middle east countries.
For example they had the power to divorce their husbands.

There was no police force as we would understand it in the early Rome Republic
so body guards for important people was common and in a large numbesr of cases the guard was make up of arm slaves.

Yes and the Roman fire department was privately own and would show up with an agent who would offer to buy the burning building from you at a fire sale price.

The longer the building burn the less the agent would offer you and once you sold the property they would then put the fire out for the new owner.

What is your point ?

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What is your point ?

An example of the wonder of your ideal society where everyone is on his own.

Within a framework of laissez faire capitalism,
fire dept.s can be brawt into being.

I respectfully decline to believe that he OWNED everyone in the Legion, Bill,
the same as Ike did not own the troops under his command.

You might wish to look into the aspect that a large percent of the US foundering fathers greatly respect the early Roman Republic and some of our government institutions that they set up reflected that fact.