Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

Post by XalvinX » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 8:00 PM UTC

nyolfen wrote: post #262

XalvinX wrote: post #247

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How could they? It was just their job. One of my brother's college friends ended up as a USAF bomber pilot in Iraq and over some beers one night he described his job. It sounded much like a video game. On the screen where many small blips and his job was to try to hit the areas where they were most dense. What did the blips represent? "Each blip was a person." No indication beyond that. Could have been kids, women, o…

do you think his job was just to find conglomerations of random people and kill them?

do you think that anyone should be killed remotely just because they happen to be in village that some fuckers in Virginia or Maryland think is somehow related to the (by many accounts fictional) "Al Qaeda" or whatever else? How does that fit in with motherfucking "American Values"?

Post by nyolfen » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

horseLOGIC wrote: post #271

nyolfen wrote: post #261

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>You adopt the neutral tone to avoid endless whataboutery. >It's hard for me to imagine that people wanted to be sacrificed, but that's my own biases and cultural conditioning talking.

You presumably quote that as if there was a contradiction there, but there isn't. We have fairly recent cases of children willingly blowing themselves up in Syria. All it really takes is the promise of a glorious afterlife, possibly combined with a life of deprivation in the here and now. Being sacrificed to the Aztec gods was a great honor, it was probably voluntary in the majority of cases. As a rule of thumb, you…

the children sacrificed by the aztecs were captives, prisoners of war, etc. there is zero evidence suggesting anyone voluntarily sacrificed themselves. it was a demonstration of power and terror by the state dressed up in religious garb.

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