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Well, if the God of Abraham is in the equation, then that high price is really not that high, if the victim's soul was in order. But yes, I know what you mean about the taste for violence. But I think a parallel could be seen in a comparison of a heroin addict and a fanatical bridge player.

Sure, the heroin addict ruins his life; but by that very fact he may come to see his own penury. If bridge can come between a person and the duty of that person to God, then the effect is the same, no? And the bridge player might be in far worse trouble, because after all, "it's just a night with the ladies from the Club," isn't it?

Well, if the God of Abraham is in the equation, then that high price is really not that high, if the victim's soul was in order.

And if not? And this price is still too high. Higher for the slaying of the innocent then the guilty. Would you be able to face it? Or would you rationalize it to yourself and thereby slip deeper into the pit.

Monsters are not born but self created bit by bit.

(How on earth did we end up here?)

a.cricket