233 - Why Humans Sacrifice
The Symbolic World
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Sacrificing Your Enemies
In order to mark their authority, ind in order to stop the killing, one of the things that they will do is that they they would sacrifice their enemies. And you see that this happens in many civilization, where the killing of a slave, for example, or the killing of an enemy, a captured enemy,. Because they want to mark their power on the other but they also want to limit the cost. They don't want to just slaughter everybodyd this is real poticgis like, i'm not, i'mnot a skimming, skimping at how the world works. But what you realize is that sacrifice is inevitable. You know, it is part of identity itself
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