I tend to agree that this is a pretty fruitless thread, though I admit to not having read it all. I also tend to agree that what was right and wrong was well enough understood in the early 19th century.

What I find difficult to reconcile is this apparent view that modern standards of humanity are, in any way, a model by which anything in this context can be judged.

Our 'modern standards' are largely theoretical, it seems to me, and we live in a world that is significantly more violent and less humane than anything in the early 19th century.

On that note, a Happy Christmas to all my readers.

JC