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Human Sacrifice

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

The standard story in human sacrifice, it was our children even and adults and people who are of high status. In most of the ancient world, you got an extra baby, just kill it. So that seems to be more in line with sort of dehumanized animals as long as you could think of animals as less than or not important.

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