Except it still exists in USA. Capital Punish for the "public good"?
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Yeah, it's the same thing

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It was one act of barbarism that followed another; this - then the execution of most of the population including elders & young by the Spanish colonists.
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Huh? The vast majority of Mesoamericans died from “old world” diseases from which they lacked immunity not from executions
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You read this in history books written by those same people who conquered and killed native people, didn't you?
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Nope, heard it from a mindful yogi history revisionist
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If one day there are no religious people left there will be no need for such behaviour because there will be no supernatural beings to appease (not that there ever was).
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Tell that to Pol Pot.
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You can also tell that to Stalin, or Lenin, or Napoleon and everyone in the French Revolution and so on.
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"Abolishing human sacrifice"? Do you mean the conquest that lead to thousands of deaths in Tenochtitlan, and demographic catastrophe throughout the hemisphere? Doesn't modern violence remind you enough of ancient violence?
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Kinda makes me feel the Spanish righteously wiped out the Aztec Empire
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What I've always wondered about human sacrifice is; weren't they ever tempted to test their hypothesis? "Let's try no sacrifice today. Then, let's see if the sun is still there tomorrow".
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I think "Pascal's wager" may have predated Pascal by quite a bit.
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