What can we understand to be the writer's own attitude toward the lottery and the stoning in the story "The Lottery"?

I think that Jackson's attitude towards the stoning and lottery is meant to generate thought about what we do to other people in our daily lives.

Jackson does not speak of her judgment in a didactic manner in "The Lottery."  In fact, the entire style of the short story is one where "no judgments are made."  Jackson does not let any of her own thoughts get in the way of what is happening in the town and how it proceeds with its ritual. However, when reflecting about what she wanted to depict, Jackson wanted to focus on the role that cruelty plays in our lives:  "I hoped by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village, to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general humanity in their own lives." Jackson's own attitude towards the stoning and the lottery is to provide a view into the savagery that human beings perpetrate upon one another.

Another aspect of Jackson's attitude towards the stoning and the lottery lies in the story's historical context.  Many believe that the way Jackson depicts "fierce events"  represent " a sensitive and faithful anatomy of our times, fitting symbols for our distressing world of the concentration camp and the bomb."  Jackson writes "The Lottery" in a world emerging from the destruction of the atomic bomb and the Holocaust.  It is a world where the fear of Communism in America gave birth to McCarthyism.  This historical context surrounds Jackson, and her attitude towards such realities are evident in her short story.