Carousel was originally a training tool for death

This is a bit exaggerated. Apparently during the crusades knights learned about a training regimen used by arab cavalry involving riding a horse around a pivot and tossing an object between them. The object of the excercise was to train dexterity in battle. European knights inspired, developed games to train their own cavalry. In italian, they called it carusella (little war).

Regular folk thought it was fun, eventually this lead to the development of the children’s carousel. So it’s a stretch to call training tool for death. It was in a very, very different form a training tool for survivability for cavalry.

In the underrated movie "Logan's Run" Carousel was also a ritual where people would willingly and enthusiastically be killed in the expectation of being reincarnated. [0][1]

[0] http://logans-run.wikia.com/wiki/Carousel

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnLU9nyFSA

This is a very dramatic presentation for something that does not warrant it.

I'd imagine medium's servers would combust trying to contain this guy's post about a hypothetical something that has its roots in something like the holocaust gas chambers.

When I read the subject I assumed it meant that it was a utility to teach kids about death and was very intrigued! :D

After the that the story was still informative but more of a let-down.

Okay, so by "death" we mean "training cavalry, which ultimately means war".

LOL @ title. Hyperbole much?