Oddbean

Who are we ti judge their culture and way of living? How can we judge their time if we do exactly the same thing but in more modern way with a help of deadly technologies 🤷🏽 Think a little! Population grew by a lot since then and proportionally WE ARE sacrificing human life's for us to have modern gadgets and toys. Your and My phone are working because children in third world country are digging with bare hands in toxic environment some minerals critical for our fucking Electric future! Can you finally see where I'm going with this?

No, you’re not going anywhere with this. Human sacrifices in the time of Columbus were irrational prayers to a non-existent sun (or whatever) god. At least the technology being built by slave labor is moving humanity forward. Also, we’re not all the same. Blank slate theory is an absolute lie. Now, the conditions should be much better, but many people cannot think like you or I. They can’t type, they’ll never be able to really read, and labor is an honorable task. To equate the two sacrifices are absurd.

Different times, same shit. Year 1450 The Taino people believed that human sacrifices were sometimes necessary to appease the gods during times of crisis, such as droughts. They performed these rare rituals in hopes of restoring balance and ensuring the survival of their community. Year 2024 Israel is flattening Gaza, knowing there are children and civilians in the area, with the blind hope of destroying Hamas fighters or one of its tunnel exits. And a charry on top, people still belive in some imaginary being nowdays. I'm not judging, just saying. We still believe in something that gives us hope. Sacrifices were hope for Taino people. We can't compare thinking from now and then but similarities are obvious.

I do have life outdide of messaging nostriches on nostr so, one step at a time. Quick answer: I never read the definition of it. But I will later today. See, in every conversation we can find inspiration to do stuff we usually would not :)

And what is our proof of how frequently their rituals were? Movie Apocalypse by Mel Gibson? I bet rituals were rarer then weight of human lives lost from inhumane confitions in mines. Rarer then all the human lives lost in wars we have fought for no fucking reason.

What gives you an impression I defend human sacrifice? They didn't know other way of life like we are today. They believed sacrifices work 🤷🏽 and they practicing it because they live in such belief. You most know in what kind of stupid shit people still believe today and this is way more concerning because we have options. Our leaders have options but yet they are sacrificing us for their greater goals.