How do you convince your population to join the military as teenagers if you don’t desensitize them to murder at infancy? Funny enough, in the same American military complex during WW1, they enforced sexual abstinence, kept attractive women around but detained any prostitutes or promiscuous women to psychologically frustrate the male soldiers in hopes that they would be more focused and lethal.

Not sure if this counts but I read Between Two Fires which is a historical horror set in the plague with heavy emphasis on the religious aspects. So many religious terms and contexts I couldn’t fully understand, finished it and immediately picked up a general world religions book that I just finished. Much better understanding now!