Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ideology has consequences.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.