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Yeah the guy was undeniably "not good" by any moral compass, back then or now.
However, as you say, it's not like he was doing shit all that special. Maybe he was impaling more people by percentage than his Ottoman friends to the south, but, I dunno, impaling even one guy seems to be kinda bad.
However, putting him on this list and ignoring (more likely ignorant of) that time ROMANS CRUCIFIED SLAVES ALL THE WAY FROM CAPUA TO ROME (nearly 200km according to Google maps! About 120mi for Burgers). 120 fucking miles of men and women all crucified in the horrific way Christians are very familiar with. For the crime of overthrowing, fighting back, winning for a while, but ultimately losing to those who enslaved them.
(For those only lightly aware: this is the rebellion famously commanded/led by (mostly any) Spartacus the escaped gladiator. The Roman Republic was already going through some shit, as they say, before this but this revolt and the resulting embarrassment and defeat of multiple of Rome's best legions kinda put them on the back foot and set conditions up further for a little guy, whose name people might know, to come along and end the republic for good. An interesting nugget from history, but also a reminder that when Eastern European orc-men like Vlad "Dracula" execute people he gets tales of being a vampire for the next 600 years or whatever. When the Romans execute, in similar brutal fashion, 6000 slaves along a public road, probably the most traveled in Europe at that time and for another 1000 years to come(? Maybe exaggerating there, but, it was a big deal. The Appian way) it's just a tragic story, filled with nuggets of facts about what was to come, mostly overlooking the barbarism of nailing (or binding with rope, however they did it) 6000 fucking humans to crosses and left to die. But we didn't get stories of Pompey drinking the blood of slaves, so, no one cares.)
Yeah the guy was undeniably "not good" by any moral compass, back then or now.
However, as you say, it's not like he was doing shit all that special. Maybe he was impaling more people by percentage than his Ottoman friends to the south, but, I dunno, impaling even one guy seems to be kinda bad.
However, putting him on this list and ignoring (more likely ignorant of) that time ROMANS CRUCIFIED SLAVES ALL THE WAY FROM CAPUA TO ROME (nearly 200km according to Google maps! About 120mi for Burgers). 120 fucking miles of men and women all crucified in the horrific way Christians are very familiar with. For the crime of overthrowing, fighting back, winning for a while, but ultimately losing to those who enslaved them.
(For those only lightly aware: this is the rebellion famously commanded/led by (mostly any) Spartacus the escaped gladiator. The Roman Republic was already going through some shit, as they say, before this but this revolt and the resulting embarrassment and defeat of multiple of Rome's best legions kinda put them on the back foot and set conditions up further for a little guy, whose name people might know, to come along and end the republic for good. An interesting nugget from history, but also a reminder that when Eastern European orc-men like Vlad "Dracula" execute people he gets tales of being a vampire for the next 600 years or whatever. When the Romans execute, in similar brutal fashion, 6000 slaves along a public road, probably the most traveled in Europe at that time and for another 1000 years to come(? Maybe exaggerating there, but, it was a big deal. The Appian way) it's just a tragic story, filled with nuggets of facts about what was to come, mostly overlooking the barbarism of nailing (or binding with rope, however they did it) 6000 fucking humans to crosses and left to die. But we didn't get stories of Pompey drinking the blood of slaves, so, no one cares.)
He was good by catholic moral compass. In the past he was many times lauded as defensor fidei or something like that against heathen Asiatic horde.