re: #45 CuriousLurker

Yeah, if you choose to ignore serial killers who revel in their notoriety, public lynchings, the torture & prisoner abuse photos taken at Abu Ghraib, etc.

There have always been people like that. If you go back far enough, there have been “movements” like that. The Romans crucified the entirety of the surrendered slave revolt led by Spartacus, one to the “mile” or whatever it was (stadia?) they used back then, right on the main public highway of the empire. Whole cities were put to the sword by Genghis Khan and he didn’t care who knew it. Some crusader is “credited” with a line that, probably mangled in translation but the sense of it comes down, “Kill them all. God will know his own.” That we have the quote tells us all we need to know about whether they wanted it spread around.

But large groups of people, numbering in the tens of thousands and up, have shied away from that kind of publicity in the past few centuries. Until now.