Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

It's amazing how since childhood the Nietzschean "beware when fighting monsters that you don't become a monster" concept has been drilled in from every direction. If nothing else but to save your soul. Not even in a religious sense. Yet a shocking amount of people decided to reveal their deep rooted ugliness.

it's because everyone has lived through the absolute best of times for their entire lives

we don't have a modern first world generation that ALL experienced war, either firsthand or having to scrimp and save to support the troops

it changes the baseline for "the worst thing you've ever experienced" which for most is "I got called a naughty name and that's literally violence"

it's the most "violence" anyone's ever seen and becomes the new thing to eliminate at all costs, as well as the ultimate expression YOU can make, so of course you wield it carelessly