Tried to make the title as succinct as I could make it. I understand its somewhat subjective, but my (possibly warped) understanding of history involves much more beating of children, rape, famine, prolonged states of war, torture, tyranny, and all with little if any justice. I guess what I'm trying to ask is, (if real) did these things affect people in the way that we'd expect it to psychologically affect a modern western first world person, complete with consequences they'd take on one's mental health? Or were they just kind of used to things being way more brutal (seemingly brutal to us, at least) and it didn't affect them?