In his own words wrote:

I saw a video of a lynching when I was much younger. It was like an actual... like a news thing. And then, feeling intense hatred for the people that committed the lynching and thinking, like, "Oh, man if I could hurt these people in some horrible ways then I could".

I was like, 'Oh, we can make the player feel that'. We can make you experience this thirst for revenge. This thirst for retribution and having you, like, commit the acts of finding it and then showing you the other side and make you regret it. To make you feel dirty for everything you've done in the game, making you realize "I'm actually the villain of the story.

Far be it for me to suggest Druckmann is displaying his fetishes and not making a work of A-R-T. But I would bet my stimulus check that he is a member of the local S&M club.