u/wycliffslim

Not the original poster but I think they ARE answering the question.

They're saying the Roman style of building a camp worked within their overall system of military campaigning and organization.

Maybe it was a better system, but only so much as it was part of a system that all worked together. The overall system of Roman military organization was better, just the annals of history are pretty clear on the effectiveness of the Empire... but was the camp a reason for it being better or was a the camp simply a requirement that flowed down from all the other decisions? Another culture could't simply say, "we're going to encamp like the Romans now because that's better". They would have had to adopt the entire Roman system for building camps in that manner to be practicable. The Roman style of encamping worked very well for the Romans because it was part of the overall Roman manner of doing things.

Edit: You're looking for an answer that says, "oh... the Greeks just lacked the ability to build a Roman style camp. They would have loved to do it but they simply weren't capable". Nothing about Roman camp building was particularly difficult... there's no reason someone else couldn't have copied it. But it WAS a lot of work that was a waste the vast majority of the time. BUT, due to the way the legions were structured a decent amount of the general work needed to be done anyways and an army needs a camp so... you get the Romans nearly obsessive camp building practices because it wasn't really much extra work for them.

Are you in London? Because if so I think you encountered one of those werewolves that Warren Zevon was talking about.

It's hilarious that everyone is so up in arms(lol) because other than the admittedly silly statement by the judge this is actually a pretty perfect example of the legal system working incredibly well by following the law but caring about citizens and context.

What the kid did was VERY illegal and could be punished by a permanent felony and years in jail. Instead he got probabation that will be wiped if he stays out of trouble, training to be more informed in the future, and court mandated mental health that anyone should get after killing another human being.

As long as you follow the law probation is barely even a punishment. The judge gave basically the lightest possible sentence possible while still acknowledging that a pretty serious law was broken.