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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The dragon's justification in ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]''. Dragons kill because they're ''supposed'' to, humans kill for a variety of flimsy reasons, or sometimes just for the hell of it.
{{quote|''We never tortured and killed each other and called it '''morality'''.''}}
** In ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', the [[Murder, Inc.|Assassin's Guild]] says that killing for money is the only sincere reason to kill, unlike killing "for honor" or "for love". Since they value life, they only kill for a lot of money. They also only kill people capable of defending themselves (skilled fighters or those rich enough to hire their own assassins) and have a list of rules of how a person can be killed, such as not killing bystanders.<ref>although, as Teatime learnt, that one's more of a guideline</ref>
* In ''[[Worldwar]]'', the Race, who has just invaded the Earth and killed lots of people is shocked to see that humans not only kill each other, but mistreat their prisoners and like to cause suffering.
** The Race is shown to be applying plenty of double standards to humans. They consider human religious beliefs to be primitive and ridiculous, but don't try to say anything bad about their emperors, whom they revere as gods (of course, this can be said about most religious people). They claim that humans are reckless in detonating nukes to try to stop the Race invasion, after nuking Berlin and Washington for no good reason and then retaliating to humans using nukes with their own nukes.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Touched on in the 2000s remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' a little. Six claims murder is humanity's one true art. They also mention Cylons don't torture or try to inflict suffering when they kill. It turns out that she's completely full of shit, but in her defense, she didn't know it at the time.
* Averted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Christmas Carol". Kazran states that he wanted to see a fish, not kill one. The Doctor points out that {{spoiler|the shark}} was trying to eat Kazran, getting the response, "He was ''hungry.''"
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode, "A Taste of Armageddon," this trope is the rationale for the insane computer war two worlds are fighting. To oppose that, Kirk has to tell them that they of course are capable of self-control like any rational being.
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