Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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first of all, I guess, uh, when you hear about these sort of things, are these like friends of yours that are like fighting and stuff like over this or like people?
So, um, this might make, make, make them feel better.
Actually, they're both right.
Uh, they're both sides are right.
Um, so, um, in some cases it is, it is aggrandized by the Spanish.
It is, it is sort of made, made it much larger.
Um, I mean, the number of people that they're talking about, um,
not even just child sacrifice, but just general sacrifice for the Aztecs seem almost impossible to do.
Like you read this sort of the history of the conquest when they're talking about the Aztecs sort of sacrificing people.
I mean, you would have to be just be sitting there like don't their arms get tired?
Like you're just sitting there like how many individual folks can you, you know, kill and then throw off a pyramid in a given day?
Like it's just like, you know.
Like thousands.
Like at a certain point, it's like you can't.
You simply can't.
You can't, right?
I mean, what do you have, like a line of people, just a whole bunch of people, and they're all standing there dispatching?