The true reality/consequence of evil. There was such an evil which would do that in antiquity. One look at it and you were done. Turned to stone I think. It was far too HIDEOUS to see without being destroyed. We are engulfed and drowning in the hideous. We are surrounded by it. Overwhelmed by it. Consumed by it. SIGH. This is not how we should have to die. By the hand of the monsters who masquerade as humans.