Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Nobody picked you.

Like you were just kind of like, you were doing nothing.

You just died.

Right.

No.

Like you just, you just flat out just died.

Right.

You just gave up.

Right.

And so we don't know how much of that's actually like state rhetoric or

or whether it's actually real.

Like, I'm pretty sure that, like, people weren't just, like, killing themselves at the very end, being like, I need to go someplace else, right?

So it may not necessarily be that that's real, but that's sort of the Aztec kind of state rhetoric.

And so when we look at sort of sacrifice, or even child sacrifice and such, you have to sort of draw a line, kind of realize that you're dealing with, you know, a state rhetoric versus, like, what actually is happening on the ground.

Again, remember, people hated these guys.

Even the Aztecs hated these guys.

And so some of this stuff...

might not be practiced on a, you know, outside of sort of like official context, right?

So you have that.

If you're talking Maya, some other places, they did practice human sacrifice.