Comment by Amezarak
5 hours ago
You can find many ancient cultures who tortured babies for sport when they captured them in raids.
Exposure and infanticide was also very common in many places.
5 hours ago
You can find many ancient cultures who tortured babies for sport when they captured them in raids.
Exposure and infanticide was also very common in many places.
> You can find many ancient cultures who tortured babies for sport when they captured them in raids.
Can you? Sources, please. And pay attention to the authors of those sources and how they relate to the culture in question.
If you have to ask, you didn't even look very hard. I'm not a historian and I learned about this stuff in World History class. Hell, there's even movies about it (unless you think there just happened to not be any children in all those villages they burned down in the movies?)...
There’s revisionist claims that all the primary sources, even those corroborated by people of the cultures in question, are either just invented propaganda or actually just isolated instances because actually, everyone throughout all time and space is on board with 2025 Western social norms. I think that’s what he’s alluding to. It’s not a very fruitful path of discussion. Archeological confirmations and independent testimony can all be safely ignored by this view as well.
But we are talking about specifically torture for sport, not just burning them alive. You can find many firsthand accounts of this throughout different times and places in different cultures. Steppe peoples and groups like the Comanche were particularly notorious for it, they seemed to find it funny.
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