People are puzzled about how the Bible calls these people the enemy of human life, it's easy to dismiss the bible as stone age ideas from the knuckle dragging cro magnons. But turns out that the people 16000 years ago were just as smart as people now, and they figured out some things about the human form that we've lost sight of today, namely, that there are people walking around who are the living enemy of all humankind, and that if you want your civ to be high-functioning, it will find these people reliably, and masticate that into dust and force it into abject poverty so that all they can do is sit at home and affect nothing. These people are referred to as Scorpions.The USA failed in this one job, to keep these kid cooking mother fuckers away from power, now, the USA's rulin class consists exclusively of said anomaly.