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It leaves a bad taste in my mouth bringing it back around to politics (I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have anything to say about it), but cancel cultu

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth bringing it back around to politics (I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have anything to say about it), but cancel culture has shown that people still love to gather 'round for a good old fashioned sacrifice.

aaomidi 3y ago
We sacrifice millions every year because we 1. Don’t want to change our reliance on cars 2. Don’t want to address hunger and houselessness. 3. We are doing basically nothing about global warming. A lot of countries COVID strategy was effectively human sacrifice too. This practice never ended.
- Eumenes 3y ago
  Homeboy just compared human sacrifice to [current social justice talking points]. Most who died of covid were overweight, old, and had preexisting medical conditions related to lifestyle. They contributed to their own "sacrifice".
  - aaomidi 3y ago
    People who wonder how we justified sacrificing humans before. This is how. We legitimately believed that sacrificing humans was helping prosperity, etc. We’re doing the same now with a few extra steps of indirection and abstraction.
    - Eumenes 3y ago
      Authoritative religious figures stealing baby from a mothers arm and the local shaman sacrificing it on an altar = same as driving a car. Hacker news is a RIOT.
      - aaomidi 3y ago
        Wait until you realize that a lot of human sacrifice in the past had willing victims. Willing being a bit of a stretch considering the entire society was conditioned to believe it was necessary. Anyway, I’ll leave you with that and maybe you’ll go do some research on this topic.
        mchaver 3y ago
        I think it still exists in some extreme groups. Just think about any cause worth dying for an you essentially find an argument for a sacrifice. In fact I remember the Texas governor Dan Patrick saying a lot of grandparents would be willing to sacrifice themselves during Covid for the economy (oddly he did not seem to be willing to lead by example).

aaomidi 3y ago

We sacrifice millions every year because we 1. Don’t want to change our reliance on cars 2. Don’t want to address hunger and houselessness. 3. We are doing basically nothing about global warming. A lot of countries COVID strategy was effectively human sacrifice too. This practice never ended.

Eumenes 3y ago
Homeboy just compared human sacrifice to [current social justice talking points]. Most who died of covid were overweight, old, and had preexisting medical conditions related to lifestyle. They contributed to their own "sacrifice".
- aaomidi 3y ago
  People who wonder how we justified sacrificing humans before. This is how. We legitimately believed that sacrificing humans was helping prosperity, etc. We’re doing the same now with a few extra steps of indirection and abstraction.
  - Eumenes 3y ago
    Authoritative religious figures stealing baby from a mothers arm and the local shaman sacrificing it on an altar = same as driving a car. Hacker news is a RIOT.
    - aaomidi 3y ago
      Wait until you realize that a lot of human sacrifice in the past had willing victims. Willing being a bit of a stretch considering the entire society was conditioned to believe it was necessary. Anyway, I’ll leave you with that and maybe you’ll go do some research on this topic.
      - mchaver 3y ago
        I think it still exists in some extreme groups. Just think about any cause worth dying for an you essentially find an argument for a sacrifice. In fact I remember the Texas governor Dan Patrick saying a lot of grandparents would be willing to sacrifice themselves during Covid for the economy (oddly he did not seem to be willing to lead by example).