The Lottery & The Perils of Indifference

In the story, "The Lottery", its starts with happy village, with ordinary people, but when all these villagers get together once a year for a lottery, where in this lottery the prize is not for money but death, in other words if you win you lose your life. There is no meaning or reason to just to kill them, but what worse about it is that they're killed by they're own family members young or old. But is this really all that different to what happens in real life, like the killing of the Jews or the KKK murdering African Americans theres really no meaning behind it.