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Lord of the Flies is fictional evidence.
Your general point stands, though.
It's a famous fictional archtype that should have reminded people to question that cohort institutionalization is a fabulous means of socialization.
I don't think I'm alone in seeing fiction as a means of understanding and remembering valid principles.