The speaker argues that the motivations of those who practiced human sacrifice were not selfless, and that any benefit to others was at best a side effect or pretext amid colonization and genocide.

“right and the steps were so steep to allow it to tumble all the way to the bottom and then the warrior who'd taken that prisoner would then take the flesh home to be consumed it was the consummation of his victory as a warrior to take on literally internalize the defeated enemy so this was as you say it's a cycle that the world is better off without i'm not going to make any excuses for it but the motivations of those who did that that was not”

“selfless. It was at best a beneficial side effect window dressing Yeah. on a process of colonization and even literal genocide and even less validation in South America because there was no such tradition at all.”