“By delving into ethnographic records, the researchers tried to tease out the relationship between human sacrifice and social hierarchy. They find that the prevalence of sacrifice increased with the degree of social stratification: it occurred in 25% of cultures with little or no stratification, 37% of those with moderately stratified societies, and 67% of those that had a pronounced hierarchy.”
Human sacrifice is essential for the construction of large agrarian societies. Now, what percent of the 33% of hierarchical societies that do not practise human sacrifice are Abrahamic? It is true that the statement is not “true” in general, but is true enough for the case of “hierarchical societies”, that is, those with complex political arrangements.
Now, what percent of the 33% of hierarchical societies that do not practise human sacrifice are Abrahamic?
This is like saying “I think that Rhode Islanders are all murderers. What percentage of the people that do not murder are from Rhode Island?” This is illogical; the reasoning is backwards.
Do you think that Japan is a hierarchial society? Do you think that Japan performs human sacrifice?
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.19681
“By delving into ethnographic records, the researchers tried to tease out the relationship between human sacrifice and social hierarchy. They find that the prevalence of sacrifice increased with the degree of social stratification: it occurred in 25% of cultures with little or no stratification, 37% of those with moderately stratified societies, and 67% of those that had a pronounced hierarchy.”
Human sacrifice is essential for the construction of large agrarian societies. Now, what percent of the 33% of hierarchical societies that do not practise human sacrifice are Abrahamic? It is true that the statement is not “true” in general, but is true enough for the case of “hierarchical societies”, that is, those with complex political arrangements.
This is like saying “I think that Rhode Islanders are all murderers. What percentage of the people that do not murder are from Rhode Island?” This is illogical; the reasoning is backwards.
Do you think that Japan is a hierarchial society? Do you think that Japan performs human sacrifice?
In any case, I will remove the careless “always”.
Are you going to remove everything from the rest of the argument which depends on the “always”? Which seems to be all of it.