If easy corrupts then cruelty corrupts much faster and is more deadly to those around you. You would be trained to kill from a young age. You would torture captured enemies to death maybe over two or three days. It would be your job to keep the slaves in line and I know of no tribe that did not take slaves. You would have to punish those of your own tribe who expressed individuality because it endangered the tribe.
How long before you came to enjoy the screams and the pain? How long before you lost your soul and became cruel not from necessity but for your pleasure?
Corruption is with us always. Life is choice. But if you can't withstand ease you would fall quickly before cruelty.
"If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?”
a.cricket
I disagree. Sometimes the easy road is more dangerous--a moment of revelation is, I should think, more likely standing over the body of a dead squaw than sitting in a cubicle.