>>511313193
Its basically child sacrifice to baal/moloch, the first stages:
>fuck over kids development
>burden them with your own shortcomings
>see this as a personal win and blame the victim for being lazy
Now you just add a hippie to the mix and voila, you get child sacrifice as a custom to improve your own life/crops/odds in war or whatever.
It's the zeitgeist, the spiritual application is the same but the material is different. This is how societies degenerate into those weird cults you see like those of the Aztecs.