the entire tribe deserved to get massacred? they deserved to have their children sold into slavery to endure god knows what? > you still have yet to tell us why sati, or that poor innocent kid being killed by his own mother is correct. when did i say it was correct? can you show me any shastra, any book of dharma which prescribe this practice? you can argue that tantric sects had traditions of human sacrifice but the same can be said of muslim groups like the qizilbash who ruled iran for centuries and were famous for practices like human sacrifice, even cannibalism. you might call them heretics, but the vast majority of hindus condemn black magic as heretical too.
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