[Tax-chick]

Rape, riot, massacres, child abuse, and animal cruelty may have flourished in previous ages ... and now, too. Maybe not as much animal cruelty, in the U.S., and we've been spared massacres for a few generations ...

If people aren't constrained by behavioral conventioned, and they aren't constrained by morality, then there's no constraint other then brute force.

[erlayman]

This really isn’t the thread to argue it but when one strata of society has all the power with no laws to rein them in you are going to have massive abuses of force no matter what the era or conventional standards.