maybe it's me being weirdly excited about the death penalty but whenever I see someone online trying to argue that the Aztec's human sacrifices were somehow super imoral or something only savages do, it just fails to register for me.
like, I'm sorry but the people they sacrificed were either willing participants (who were treated pretty nicely) or prisoners of war (which, let's face it, the romans would have done the same if they had also a widespread human sacrifice part in their culture).
besides, they killed the sacrifice rather swiftly and didn't do much torturing from what I know. so like honestly I think it was a rather fine empire given the land it was on (and they were about as advanced as you could naturally get without access to metal on the surface, which was really the only thing they'd have needed to advance technologically to the next tier).
also peach cobbler videos about the Aztec empire really did make me appreciate it more from a big distance.