If someone practices an ancient religion, where on a certain holiday it is traditional to offer human sacrifices to their resepective gods that they believed in. I can’t remember the specific religion but there was some ancient religion around the area where the mayans and the aztecs lived and human sacrifices were integral.
Does this practice of religon practicing human sacrifices to whatever gods that they believe in violate the libertarian theory of voluntary non agression, even though you are killing someone for religious purposes,even though members of this religion in their respective communities raise no objections.
Since murder is prosecuted to the full extent of the law, would this too? And if the person who wishes to be sacrificed to the gods allows this to happen to him, should we raise an objection to this.
“Does this practice of religon practicing human sacrifices to whatever gods that they believe in violate the libertarian theory of voluntary non agression, even though you are killing someone for religious purposes,even though members of this religion in their respective communities raise no objections.”
There are a lot of particulars to this question. For me, the primary position is not whether the community rejects but if the individuals, themself, object. But even this becomes problamatic, for example did these individuals choose to move to said locations and there by accept to follow by such proceedings or were they born into it?
Frankly, who cares? No modern religion I’m aware of practices human sacrifice, and it’s doubtful any other society would find such a practice morally acceptable.
Since in libertarian theory you own yourself it means you can do anything to yourself including forfeiting own life. That is my understanding of self-ownership.
I beg to differ, sir. Christianity, for example, still uses human sacrifice, though it is symbolic now, but the basic concept is very similar to that which has been stated by OP. They, during specific events, “eat Christ’s body and drink His blood”.
The opinion of the religionists is irrelevant… the only opinion that matters is that of the sacrificial victim. I suppose ritual sacrifice of a genuinely suicidal might be legally justifiable in a natural order. But then, others may take legal issue with it on purely aesthetic grounds.