That would be a big incentive to stay off the playing field. There is so much to admire about the Aztecs but they did seem to take the value of life really lightly. I guess if you compare that to our modern culture we, too, take life too lightly, but on a less regular basis, with wars every few years, and then everybody gets cancelled, not just the males. For a long time I've wondered if there's some biological basis to killing off surplus ("surplus") males. It happens a lot among our fellow mammals. Maybe us, too. Its pretty obvious not all the males that are born are necessary to breed the species. Killing off the extras with sacrifice like the Aztecs and others did or with wars like we do is one way of dealing with the surplus. Homosexuality seems to me to be preferable for a lot of reasons. Homosexuality fits in because non breeding males can contribute a lot of things to a society that need doing, so societies with homosexuality have a better chance of succeeding.
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