We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
&gt; What was the reason for all this carnage?<p>Perhaps there was no rational reason, and we are closer to understanding than we&#x27;d like to admit.<p>A significant portion of modern Americans regularly enjoy blood and carnage in video games and movies. There&#x27;s a cruelty, a bloodlust, deep in the human psyche that even now isn&#x27;t socialized away, merely supressed, to be satisfied only in fantasy.<p>Yet thousands are murdered every year in our society, which harshly punishes murder. How many more would be killed, merely for sport, if that were encouraged by religion?