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A [[Sub Trope]] of [[Idiot Plot]].

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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* We can only assume that the piggies of ''[[Ender's Game (Literature)|Speaker for the Dead]]'' had never tried to disembowel another species before, or else they might have some idea why the humans objected.

** Justified, between when the practice started and when the humans showed up, no other sentient species ''existed'' on their planet -- there were only 6 other species on the whole planet. Forget no other sentient species, there were barely any other species, period!

* In ''[[The Conquerors Trilogy]]'' by [[Timothy Zahn]], first contact with the Zhirrzh goes very badly because the ghosts they use for communication ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) are fatally sensitive to radio waves. Humans are the ''FOURTH'' species this has happened with (the other three they conquered, thus the trilogy title). They never figured out that these species were trying to communicate; instead, clearly, all those other species attacked them at first contact. And those other species were so barbaric they ''armed their escape pods''! And so on.

* Played for horror in Shirley Jackson's ''[[The Lottery]]'': The premise is a town that holds an annual lottery, where the "winner" of the lottery gets stoned to death by the rest of the locals. The townsfolk have no qualms about this, even going as far as {{spoiler|a mother getting stoned by her own children when she receives the wining ticket}}. Other towns have begun to abolish this lottery in protest, along with one person in this town, which the other townsfolk can only interpret as societal regression.