Read the passage by Bartolomé de las Casas.

[Since New Spain was discovered], great atrocities were committed against the indigenous people of the region and some were killed by members of the expedition. These so-called Christians set about stealing from the people and murdering them on the pretense of settling the area. And [since that time] the great iniquities and injustices, the outrageous acts of violence and the bloody tyranny of these Christians have steadily escalated, the perpetrators having lost all fear of God . . . and all sense of self-respect.
–Bartolomé de las Casas

According to Bartolomé de las Casas, the effect of atrocities, injustices, and outrageous acts on the perpetrators is that