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[[No Real Life Examples Please]] -- at least until we've made contact with an entirely pacifistic extraterrestrial race.
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* The dragon's justification in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/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 (Literature)/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>
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** 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.
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