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People who wonder how we justified sacrificing humans before. This is how. We legitimately believed that sacrificing humans was helping prosperity, etc. We’re
by 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 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).