What Are You Said to Remember About the Holocost?

The sins and noise of humanity can reach such a clamour that even the gods hear and are forced to intervene. This is an act of mercy, to ask god to be a bit more judicious in his judgement. It's like, ok, you gang to wipe out the well, bad things are happening there, but who aren't completely corrupted by what's going on there? The issue of wilful blindness certainly springs to mind if nothing else....