Human hunting

Historical examples

• In Ancient Greece, the upper class of Sparta regularly practiced the stalking and murder of members of their servile helot population; such murders were carried out both by the secret police as a means of keeping the helots cowed and unlikely to revolt, and as part of the military training for Spartan youths.
• During the Spanish Civil War, a real-world version of this practice became popular among the sons of wealthy landowners. The hunts took place on horseback and targeted landless peasants as an extension of the White Terror. They were jokingly referred to as "reforma agraria" referencing the grave their quarry would be dumped into and the land reforms the lower classes had been attempting to attain.
• On July 18, 1984, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty walked into a San Ysidro McDonalds & committed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Beforehand, Huberty kissed his wife Etna goodbye before telling her he was "going hunting... hunting for humans."

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