Thanks for the detailed response(s). I also "justified" my post in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832128 https://news.ycombinator.com/it

Thanks for the detailed response(s). I also "justified" my post in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832128) but I'll repeat myself for you, too. "Sometimes religion is the carrier of some of these taboos and rites, and sometimes it is not." Agreed. But my original post simply said this was a reminder of the "dangers of religion." And this specific example demonstrates that well. Religious beliefs were used to justify human sacrifice, despite murder being a "taboo that is shared by many cultures", as you well put it.