It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
What is war if not murder? Society teaches us with one hand and then commands us to disobey all that we have learned. Those we are killing, if we had killed in their homes we would be jailed as a monster. Yet on the battlefield, we are hailed as a hero. What is an enemy? He is just another man, commanded as you were to advance the society for whom he was sent to kill and die for.
Why do people kill in 2010? Surely we are all civilised enough by now to realise there are alternatives to war?
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