What Is Torture Art and the Mind Races?

The Assyrians did some really bad things for sports. So did the Romans, throwing early Christians and Jews to fight lions for sport. It fits with the long history of almost every culture of punishing people who you feel deserve it as a spectacle. But in a war context, it's very similar. You are happy that the Christians or Jews in ancient Rome are thrown to the lions because they're not you and they're bad and they're different.