Externally focused cruelty can be memetic but the same is true of internally focused cruelty and ascetism (paging Nietzsche). "No pain no gain" is an old saw and often wrong, particularly in a culture that turns everything to 11.
Externally focused cruelty can be memetic but the same is true of internally focused cruelty and ascetism (paging Nietzsche). "No pain no gain" is an old saw and often wrong, particularly in a culture that turns everything to 11.