Underscores the reality that there is a mindset pattern among human beings that allows that human to kill other humans with impunity and without conscience or regret. They appear throughout history and it is not uncommon for their ilk to achieve high office and power.
People that have a propensity to use "I, me, my, mine" a lot in their conversations? Ummmm? That reminds me of someone, but I just can't remember who at the moment. /sarc
I see this “mindset” in the following way - there are times when ordinary morality can be superseded by the needs of a greater good, or higher cause (ie war, basically).
But this philosophy cannot be unchecked (or else you wind up with Aushwitz and the Killing Fields). Hence we have the Laws of War and Crimes Against Humanity that limit (under threat of punishment) the degree to, and circumstances under which, the “ordinary morality” can be superseded during wartime.
Investigative Discovery had an episode where a guy ordered a hit on an investor,IIRC. He told the victim he wanted to show him a motorcycle in the back of the shop, and on the way introduced him to the hit man. They shook hands and smiled at each other and as the kid walked away, the hit man bashed in his skull with an iron pipe.
A poster boy for the death penalty if there ever was one, but he got a plea deal to rat out the guy who hired him. The video showed him confessing, without a whit of remorse.
Infuriating.
“...not uncommon for their ilk to achieve high office and power...”
Agreed; it really sounds like comey’s fbi, brennan’s cia. Much of 0’s band of creeps.