Rituals

I my opinion rituals are a necessary evil. In society we judge people on their success and their deeds. This being said there is on surefire way to ensure that in a community everyone is equal. That is to have everyone subjected to the same process usually involving extreme amounts of mental distress and physical pain. Now in today's society the physical pain is not really sanctioned as an acceptable method of initiation unless of course you take into account specific groups such as the military. This is not the case in many small rural communities outside of America. For example the Brazilian Satere-Mawe method of initiation for their young boys to become men is not only painful but arguably the most painful thing that a human can undergo without dieing and they have to do it 20 times. To become a man these young boys must wear gloves inter laced with up to 50 bullet ants for a half an hour.

This is a bullet ant. The sting that this ant can give is literally the most painful sting ever recorded and has been compared to 30000 bee stings at once, and is rated as more painful than the Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Ouch!!!!!!!!!