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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jul 22

    A reminder of ancient violence: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital. Abolishing human sacrifice was probably the first institutional decline of violence.http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital …

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      2. Paul Sobczak‏ @eagletusk Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Except it still exists in USA. Capital Punish for the "public good"?

        3 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
      3. Morris Applebaum IV‏ @Applebaum4th Jul 22
        Replying to @eagletusk @sapinker

        Yeah, it's the same thing 🙄

        3 replies 1 retweet 50 likes
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      2. HadzoLFC 🌹 🇪🇺‏ @HadzoLFC Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        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.

        3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. SalPar99‏ @Par99Sal Jul 22
        Replying to @HadzoLFC

        Huh? The vast majority of Mesoamericans died from “old world” diseases from which they lacked immunity not from executions

        4 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
      4. Kunal Raval‏ @kunal512 Jul 22
        Replying to @Par99Sal @HadzoLFC

        You read this in history books written by those same people who conquered and killed native people, didn't you?

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. SalPar99‏ @Par99Sal Jul 22
        Replying to @kunal512 @HadzoLFC

        Nope, heard it from a mindful yogi history revisionist

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      2. Chrisanthrope the Nullifidian‏ @2ManyOfUs Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        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).

        5 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Peter Bridgman‏ @Peter_Bridgman Jul 22
        Replying to @2ManyOfUs @sapinker

        Tell that to Pol Pot.

        3 replies 2 retweets 68 likes
      4. RobertDeNitro‏ @KillNotesMark2 Jul 22
        Replying to @Peter_Bridgman @2ManyOfUs @sapinker

        You can also tell that to Stalin, or Lenin, or Napoleon and everyone in the French Revolution and so on.

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      2. pablo piccato‏ @ppiccato Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker @ahope71

        "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?

        3 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
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      2. Kobe‏ @Kobe70898492 Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        Kinda makes me feel the Spanish righteously wiped out the Aztec Empire

        2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Grim Fanwanko‏ @synthwavefem Jul 24
        Replying to @Kobe70898492 @sapinker

        bad take

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. One Eyed Man‏ @Gubbslam Jul 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        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".

        3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Theodosus‏ @Atheodosus Jul 22
        Replying to @Gubbslam @sapinker

        I think "Pascal's wager" may have predated Pascal by quite a bit.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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