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Homeboy just compared human sacrifice to [current social justice talking points]. Most who died of covid were overweight, old, and had preexisting medical condi
by 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 agoPeople 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 agoAuthoritative 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 agoWait 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 agoI 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).