Eid Mubarak!
Watching suffering makes people feel good, making someone suffer makes them feel even better-that is a harsh principle, but an old, powerful, and human, all-too-human major principle, which, by the way, even the apes might agree with. For people say that, in thinking up bizarre cruelties, the apes already anticipate a great many human actions and, as it were, act them out. Without cruelty there is no celebration: that's what the oldest and longest era of human history teaches us-and with punishment, too, there is so much celebration!
- - Friedrich Nietzsche