Hawzah News Agency- The Colosseum is a circular structure counted among the ancient relics of Rome. Two thousand years ago, Rome stood as one of the world's most important cities, and the Colosseum was its most beautiful and astonishing building. Designed as a stadium — and twice destroyed by earthquakes — it had a capacity of over 50,000 spectators. This structure was built purely for Roman fun and amusement. It was no sports arena; it was a venue established exclusively for the killing of humans and animals for Roman entertainment.
By the West's own admission, more than 500,000 people and over one million wild animals — lions, crocodiles, rhinoceroses and even elephants — were slaughtered inside the Colosseum, purely to entertain the Romans. If we take the functional lifespan of this circular structure to be 200 years, a rough calculation reveals the daily death toll. Two hundred years, at 365 days each, equals 73,000 days. Dividing the acknowledged 500,000 human victims by 73,000 gives us 6.8. This means that over two centuries, six to seven people were killed in this stadium every single day, purely for entertainment. According to Western sources, over one million wild animals were also killed in this circular venue. Using the same calculation, that comes to 12 to 13 wild animals slaughtered every day for 200 years.
Given that modern Western thought rests on the philosophical, social, economic and political foundations of ancient Greece and Rome, it is hardly surprising that killing human beings — purely for entertainment and self-preservation — has become a standard practice in the West, particularly in the United States. Professor John Mearsheimer, the prominent political scientist at the University of Chicago, has acknowledged that between 1971 and 2021 — a span of just 50 years — the United States killed more than 38 million people around the world. Divide 38 million by 50 years, and the terrifying figure of 760,000 emerges. That is, the Americans have killed over 760,000 people every single year.
The question must be asked: in the face of such horrifying numbers, how can anyone trust Western good faith when it comes to human rights?
To the wise and discerning, it is no secret that while the Romans — the very symbol of Western culture — were butchering people for sport, civilized and learned Iranians were composing the human rights charter of Cyrus the Great. And as the saying goes, read the detailed tale yourself from this brief account.
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