Seneca loathed crowds and gladiatorial games. He explained that crowds were a disease, an illness that stripped a man of his individual ideas and morals. As for gladiatorial games, Seneca preached that watching other humans being killed took away any humanity in the watcher. In our society today, I believe that there are many entertainments, much like gladiatorial games, that degrade the dignity of humans because they are bloody and inappropriate. Seneca believed that it was dangerous and harmful to people to consort with crowds because there are misguidances in large crowds. Seneca said, “…there is no person who does not make some vice attractive to us, or stamp it upon us, or taint us unconsciously therewith.” (Citation) Seneca said here
