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>There's no doubt that human sacrifice is a barbaric custom

Our own culture believes in sacrificing humans to the things that we worship. We just dress it up differently.

>"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure"

- Thomas Jefferson

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Think of all the lives that went into building the beginnings of the industrial age: miners, construction workers, pedestrians electrocuted or run down by automobiles. Even today this continues in slightly different ways - as one example, thirty-seven thousand of our fellow citizens here in the US died on our roads last year. And we just think to ourselves that's just how it works.

And that's before getting into our cultural celebration of heroic sacrifice, or other ways we trade in human lives, both our own and others.

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