#morality of war

[sca-nerd]

I've got second hand embarrassment as a Catholic.

[quietflorilegium]

The king toed the trampled and torn grass and said, "I thought it was wrong to sit back on a hillside watching men die and now... I am not sure. From above, I can see men on both sides trapped in a war over which they have no control. On the field, I care about nothing but striking down anyone who strikes at me." She took his hand. "Your morality up on the hillside is an illusion, no more real than the freedom you imagine you have from it in battle." She had seen enough to know. "All wars make men monsters, all wars and all men." "And women?" he asked. "Women, too," Attolia confirmed.

Megan Whalen Turner, “Return of the Thief”