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Being enslaved and raped is bad, but not quite as bad as being enslaved, raped, and also being used as a source of meat. I think it was one of Neal Stephenson'
by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Being enslaved and raped is bad, but not quite as bad as being enslaved, raped, and also being used as a source of meat.
I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it really brought into perspective what assholes the Aztecs were when you consider that bringing in the Spanish Inquisition was actually an improvement, vis-a-vis the cruelty of the dominant religion.
The Inquisitors tortured their victims, true enough, but they didn't eat them.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoIn addition to the 'not even comparable' level of atrocity, the scale of the direct victims of the Inquisition also paled in comparison to the full and complete systematic mass murder of the Aztec rituals. At very least the eradication of the craziest death cult in history was a bonus for everyone.
- tptacek 8y agoThey didn't eradicate the "death cult" so much as they eradicated most of the people in Central America.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoNo, they did not. Illness and plague wiped out most of South and Central America. Wars of conquest did not kill remotely as many in comparison. Moreover, were the Aztecs to have a land boundary to Spain, and were they able to defeat them, the Aztecs would have had no problem slicing up Spaniards and eating their beating hearts for dinner as well. So the better team definitely won in this case.