In “Apocalypto”, Mel Gibson’s film about the Mayans that was hit by a wave of controversy for the horrifying scenes of violence depicted by the director, there is a civilization in which barbarism dominates, man is worth nothing and human sacrifice is practiced.
As the German Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss said, lashing out at relativism, “if everything is the same, then cannibalism is just a matter of taste”.
I have seen a video of a Syrian terrorist who cuts the chest of a man who is still alive while others hold him down, extracts his heart and eats it for the cameras.
