There is a brilliant freely accessible short story The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. The Hunger Games is the contemporary version.
The moral of these stories is as follows:
‘We should not blindly follow traditional and/or popular paradigms without moral consideration of our conduct.’
Human sacrifice atrocities ‘for the good of society’ abound in history.
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