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How much does constructing giant skull walls and pillars from the remains of your human sacrifices(https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundreds

How much does constructing giant skull walls and pillars from the remains of your human sacrifices(https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundred...) contribute to happiness and the good life? Asking for a friend.

CapitalistCartr 5y ago
"To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
- mc32 5y ago
  Im not sure we want to take advice from Barbarians -even fictional representations of them. I mean, one might ask, “What can the Khmer Rouge teach us about running a country effectively.”
  - CapitalistCartr 5y ago
    Conan merely copied Genghis, who said it first. And look at his business success.
Grieving 5y ago
Depends on what you think is best in life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos edit: looks like I was beaten
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bradrn 5y ago
Um, because they also were proto-socialist, had better healthcare and hygiene than Europe of the time, and had social norms stressing unfailing politeness? I mean, it’s true their morals seem alien and inhuman to us, but that doesn’t actually make them bad people as such, and I certainly wouldn’t reduce the whole of Mesoamerican civilization to ‘those nasty guys who sacrificed people’. (Further reading: someone at a forum I belong to who is well-read in this area has been doing an excellent series of posts on the Mexica: https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712 https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712, which if you ignore the long discussions between posts is a really readable introduction to Mexica society.)
dang 5y ago
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. It greatly lowers discussion quality and we're trying for something else here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ryder9 5y ago
  these rules are kind of a joke right? I see top comments breaking them all the time, i guess dismissing comments as "sjw and woke" is permitted on this site
  - dang 5y ago
    They are no joke. That doesn't we moderate every comment that deserves it. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... There's another aspect to this, though, which is that people with strong political views tend to view the site as dominated by their enemies. Meanwhile the people with opposite political views think their enemies dominate it. These perceptions are what happens when passionate feeling meets cognitive bias. See for yourself: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20sjw&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

CapitalistCartr 5y ago

"To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."

mc32 5y ago
Im not sure we want to take advice from Barbarians -even fictional representations of them. I mean, one might ask, “What can the Khmer Rouge teach us about running a country effectively.”
- CapitalistCartr 5y ago
  Conan merely copied Genghis, who said it first. And look at his business success.

Grieving 5y ago

Depends on what you think is best in life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos edit: looks like I was beaten

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bradrn 5y ago

Um, because they also were proto-socialist, had better healthcare and hygiene than Europe of the time, and had social norms stressing unfailing politeness? I mean, it’s true their morals seem alien and inhuman to us, but that doesn’t actually make them bad people as such, and I certainly wouldn’t reduce the whole of Mesoamerican civilization to ‘those nasty guys who sacrificed people’. (Further reading: someone at a forum I belong to who is well-read in this area has been doing an excellent series of posts on the Mexica: https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712 https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712, which if you ignore the long discussions between posts is a really readable introduction to Mexica society.)

dang 5y ago

Please don't break the site guidelines like this. It greatly lowers discussion quality and we're trying for something else here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ryder9 5y ago
these rules are kind of a joke right? I see top comments breaking them all the time, i guess dismissing comments as "sjw and woke" is permitted on this site
- dang 5y ago
  They are no joke. That doesn't we moderate every comment that deserves it. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... There's another aspect to this, though, which is that people with strong political views tend to view the site as dominated by their enemies. Meanwhile the people with opposite political views think their enemies dominate it. These perceptions are what happens when passionate feeling meets cognitive bias. See for yourself: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20sjw&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...