Well, the answer to what you are asking is how we perceive cruelty today in better terms it’s our threshold for what we would consider cruel and unjustified. We have a much lower threshold for what we would consider cruel and unjustified today then we did in the bronze age, ancient slavery, ancient concubinage, and essentially pillaging and murdering was perfectly fine. Not because it’s written in some abstract law within the universe that we cannot see it is because we put value points on the morals we deemed to have more benefit for us