The show never faces the moral horror of its origins, and it refuses to embrace Zola's notion that sexual pleasure leads to brutality and destruction.
Their misbehavior is all the more awful because it doesn't stem from rage or volatility; these kids are just caught up in the hormonal surges that often lead to casual brutality.
Conservative readers accused Zola of prurience; the novel, however, illustrates the author's belief that sexual pleasure leads only to brutality and destruction.
"A Simple Plan" is the story of 2 brothers who find millions of dollars inside the wreckage of a crashed airplane and scheme to keep the money, a decision that leads inexorably to brutality, betrayal, and death.
Tufaro criticized O'Malley's zero tolerance policy, suggesting it would lead to increased police brutality towards minorities.
Do we not need to focus more on the social and psychological factors that lead to these acts of brutality and indifference, so that we know the warning signs to look out for in ourselves and our societies?
There's James Houston, a young drifter who has followed his brother into the military and finds himself in the midst of a war with no rules, a war in which the heat and the jungle and the confusions of fighting a guerrilla enemy lead to acts of startling brutality and horror.
Scalpels lead to scruples, though the obsessive brutality and bloodshed continue right up to the corny, predictable surprise ending.
Besides, there's a different conclusion about Hitler's artistic talents (mediocre though they were): creative energy can lead to great horror and murderous brutality.
As soon as I arrived on Saturday, I knew that police brutality would lead to grave consequences and deaths. .
