Comment by mullingitover
3 hours ago
This goes against the firm stance of every major religion, and well documented studies showing that humans universally have innate sense of fairness upon which ethical systems are founded. There may be some difficult ethical questions, but there a far more which are very clear-cut.
Human sacrifice, including child sacrifice, was commonplace around the world. So how much of a common ethical ground can there be?
You brought out a good point, it was.
It's just a statistical anomaly where the collective thought was stuck in a local minima, where they thought that the sacrifices had a correlative/causative effect on good harvest/luck/fertility/rain/etc. The collective common good for a sacrifice of someone was seen as a good deal with the limited information they had available at that time.
There's no universal human instinct to commit human sacrifice, and while it may have happened in scattered groups it wasn't "commonplace."
On the other hand there is absolutely universal human sense of fairness.
It wasn’t “scattered groups.” It was common among the Aztecs, who were the largest population in the new world. It was practiced in Mesopotamia, Iron Age Europe, and other places. That demolishes the idea that there’s a “universal human sense of fairness.”
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