Humans Kill Wantonly: Difference between revisions

== [[Literature]] ==

* 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.

** 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.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Professor's opening monologue on the [[Turbo Grafx 16]] CD game ''It Came From The Desert'' contrasts us with ants, shortly before the town is overrun by giant mutant ants:

 

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