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Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by int_19h on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:36AM (#17385292)
Depends. If it's the Aztecs we're talking about, I'm sure they'd prefer to die of starvation in at least some cases - Aztec deities were fairly inventive as far as their sacrifices went, and at least one of them required the victim to be flayed alive, for example.
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Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by shoo on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:58AM (#17385360)
point taken. if we keep at this long enough we can end up with some utilitarian equations to trade-off the relative costs of different forms of human misery.
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