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Reasons: Julius Caesar's Views On Suicide
Julius Caesar The Romans held different views on suicide, depending on the situation. They thought of suicide as heroic in some cases and as immoral in other cases. If someone in the Roman Empire wanted to kill themselves, they had to apply to the Senate, and then the Senate would judge if it was justifiable or not. If their reason to want to die was justified, then they would be allowed to kill themselves, and would sometimes even be provided hemlock to kill themselves with. Slaves were not allowed to commit suicide because they were considered property, rather than being considered a human being. People that were accused of capital crimes were not allowed to commit suicide either because if they killed themselves, then the state wouldn’t …show more content…
I think that you can control whether or not you do well on certain things or how nice you are to people. I don’t think that you can exactly control how well the outcomes of things that you do will be, but I do think that you can make it more likely to have a better outcome by spending more time on stuff and putting more effort into it. I think that this is the same for everyone, but the only difference is that different people have different opportunities. People that live in America will have different opportunities than people who live in France or North Korea. I still think that everyone can control their own futures to a certain extent, but that their futures are limited based on other factors like where they live and their family’s financial status along with how their family works. I am not very superstitious. Sometimes, I read horoscope posts on social media, such as Instagram, but they just say something like “the signs as cookies,” or anything like that. With these posts, the things that they put for each of the signs could be any person because I don’t really think that it’s based off of anything real. As for real horoscopes, I don’t read mine on a regular basis. If I happen to see something with horoscopes then I might read mine, but I don’t take the advice that it gives because I don’t believe in it. I don’t believe in it because the things that they say are very generic and could be said about any given person, …show more content…
Caesar had named himself the dictator of Rome for life, and the citizens did not like that because they wanted to keep their Roman Republic how it was before. The republic was divided into 3 parts, and if Caesar was dictator for life, then he would continue to gain more and more power, and would eventually just pass laws without having anybody vote on them. Shortly before Caesar’s death, he had announced himself as dictator for life in Rome. Many politicians saw Caesar as eventually becoming a king, and Rome did not want a monarchical

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