Lazy_Cat quoted The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence (The Library Trilogy, #3)
The secret war that defines the Library has chosen its champions and set them on …
United in their togetherness, they had become something other than human, substituting a mob's instincts for those of a person. And here again, the simple mathematics of us and them had given a crowd license to chew pasties and joke among themselves while they watched the living become the dead.
— The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence (The Library Trilogy, #3) (Page 381)
Book 3 of this series is just filled to the brim with stuff like this. It's not subtle, and that's not a complaint. It's very much a product of today.