Raul really just recreated Stanford prison experiment and then has the balls to judge people for it.
He himself caused the people to become that way: overindulgence and affluence will always lead to that outcome if all needs are fulfilled. Since conflict is necessary for growth in nature, people will find a way regardless to create conflict in a utopia.
Truly a bullshit and contrived series and I can't wait for it end with Raoul's death.
Nothing forces them to indulge though, that's the problem. There are people who don't exploit "opportunities" like that, because it's the people themselves willingly doing it. We are (supposed to be) sapient and capable of resisting and suppressing our desires. That's why being horribly abused is merely an excuse and not a justification for being abusive yourself. If an event doesn't make 100% of people who experience it do the same thing or become one certain way afterwards, the person itself is the cause for becoming horrible. Even something like mass-murder will turn some people pacifist, some people spiteful and the others anything in between. If people act horrible because they have the chance, are allowed to or arguably even when coerced, they're just horrible people to begin with.
I get letting the people's temptations turn them insane with greed and then "judging" them once it is revealed that inside they were actually awful but hadn't been able to unleash it yet, but really? Children too?
Yeah the sacrifices are insane on the other side, but is Raoul going to have his servants slaughter seven or eight year old kids just because they didn't want to share their toys? Instead of teaching them its wrong while they are young, just go ahead and have the hell's servants torture them I guess.
Aside from "teaching them it's wrong" not working all the time, expecting all children to be innocent is naive at best. Whilst what they did is very tame compared to the other stuff, the same as written above also applies to children.