Thread by @Kanishka4Kushan

Both sides are wrong here.

First of all idiots defending Aztecs should understand that not all cultures are equally evolved and refined.

Ours considers non-violence not only towards humans but towards animals too as the supreme duty (conditions apply)

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https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1447640418691076096

Christians consider all non-human life on earth as their God given property. All who dont believe in One Book/Prophet are inferior to the believers, hence they must be saved even if it means war. That is how the Church justified two thousand years of bloodshed.

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The Aztec culture was brutal and Adharmic. But it is useful to understand that they were not mad. They believed in their worldview with as much fanaticism as Medieval Christians. The Captor and Captive became father and son. The Captive was treated as a deity...

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In Aztec culture, those who died without any event would go to a "cold nothingness" after their deaths. Being sacrificed meant going to the Gods. Majority of the offerings were self sacrifices.

This fanaticism is just a different form of modern jihadi suicide bombers.
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"And, as the Western world has tales of heroes who died valiantly in battle, so does the Nahua world have its own heroes that died valiantly on the stone of sacrifice"

One of these is definitely superior to the other, but is it the "best"? It is not for them to decide.

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The only lesson from the Aztec episode is of survival-better social organization, advanced technology, resourcefulness and Heroic Ambition shall always win.

The victors may then argue who was more "moral" over the corpses of the defeated.

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