Human Nature in "The Lottery"

In the story"The Lottery", the human behavior is the common behavior in the village that people sacrify the winner of the lottery which is happen every summer time. That is a weird traditional belief of the people in that village. They do sacrify the winner blindly without using their mind to think that it's right or wrong. Moreover, it is nonsense that they kill one person one year by stone according to the belief that they will have a full harvest of corn.