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Re:What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy ... by whatshisface on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:43AM (#25008952)
The Inquisition is getting closer, but moving the conversation from the justice system to the inquisition does make it look like we're just trying to compare the moral goodness of Europeans and Aztecs. Well, groups like "Europeans" can't have a level of moral goodness, only individual people can. Obviously any European serial killer was worse than the average Aztec. So if that's the discussion we're implicitly having, that's a poorly founded discussion.
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Re:What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy ... by WaxProlix on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:56PM (#25010131)
Religious death to religious death seems like a more reasonable comparison in the first place right?

Also you managed to miss the (in my mind) legitimate criticism of your characterization of their sacrifices as being 'for fun'.

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Re:What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy ... by carok on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:16PM (#25021284)
Separating the church (religion) and justice in medieval europe doesn't make much sense, as the church was the highest political power in europe back then.
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