Letting children live is a social construct

They didn’t actually stop, just the scale and the reasoning behind them changed and in a short span, more than 100,000 times as many people were sacrificed a year to the religion and “prosperity” of the native population were sacrificed in the name of a foreign religion and prosperity of a foreign population. So I mean- it was highly unlikely the native people were going to sacrifice their culture and genetics to near or total eradication, but their “enlightened” visitors managed the near or total erasure of entire genetic groups, cultures, and languages. If one were to ask, it’s speculation, but I think the native people of the time would probably have preferred the sacrificing over what happened. It’s also a hard argument that the history that transpired was somehow more noble or kind.