Morals and Orders There is a superstition that under danger men can be expected to have more than their normal powers, and that they will outdo their best efforts simply because their lives are in danger. Indeed, in many ways the reality is just the opposite, and individuals under stress are far less capable of doing anything other than blindly running from or charging toward a threat. There are institutions in society that people turn …showed first 75 words of 852 total…

…showed last 75 words of 852 total…to kill. In any armed conflict, the people on either side are not that different, and if they had gotten to know each other under different circumstances, they might even have been friends. It has been said War is a game that Kings would not play at. War is understood to open a man to a world of disaster making it hard to return; it is those empowered that declare war and do not fight.