Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

[shinta|hikari]

War in itself is a desperate situation. Medieval times in general, unless you were well off, are desperate times. Why do you think armies are ordered to pillage? It's because armies needed supplies, and when they don't have a steady supply route, they need to pillage and loot.

Those people looted without blinking an eye because that's what they needed to do to survive. If they didn't, they would have trouble keeping the army and themselves fed.

They didn't do it because it was fun or honorable. They did it because it was necessary.

As time went on and we became more affluent as a society, looting dead people became a crime. Humans already saw it as immoral, so societies decided to outlaw it, but that was only practical because we can afford to not loot for survival.

I think the main difference in our POV is I think medieval times, where you say looting is commonplace, is a terrible time where many people barely survived. There are a lot of old barbaric practices that we have done away with because of improved civilization and technology. Looting is just one of them.

To add, many human civilizations treated their dead with respect, some with very elaborate funeral and burial practices. Compared to other animals, humans treat human corpses well when they can. When they can't because they need to survive, I see that as desperation.