Word: slaughterous
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...indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of millions of innocent persons through total nuclear war could clearly be wrong. In my mind, even resolving to wage total war under some set of conditions poses moral problems. Although I admit numerous doubts, I feel it may even be wrong to participate actively in the creation of improved instruments for waging total war. And my work on this volume certainly constituted participation, however indirect, in the creation of such instruments...
...rock singers: McCartney and Lennon's Eleanor Rigby, Paul Simon's Dangling Conversation, and Tim Hardin's If You Were a Carpenter. But a French song, titled La Colombe (The Dove), provides the most haunting impact, for it is a beautifully put plaint against the slaughter of wars...
...prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter ... Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women...
...revenge on the bank that has repossesed his house by shooting up the sign they have placed on his lawn. It is the act of shooting, not its effect, that gives Bonnie and Clyde their stature. Both they and their admirers are curiously blind to the impact of the slaughter they inflict...
...bleached field, Clyde finally makes love to Bonnie. His brother is dead, he and Bonnie already wounded, and there remains only one last ride into another dreary town before the potency is destroyed. But even as Penn is unwilling to sentimentalize their death, he acknowledges their consummation through slaughter, and in doing so gives the spectre of American violence a specific and relevant expression...