(Perceval) Did Caesar himself ever kill anyone?
A: Many, certainly.
Q: (Perceval) So, is there some kind of balance in the sense of, given the times around then being a very war-like time, with a lot of fighting and death going on in general... some kind of a Great Soul at the time coming down and... It doesn't necessarily have to be a peacemaker kissing people's feet like Jesus, right? But maybe there's some... what we would understand as a prohibition of killing other people as kind of being "spiritually evolved", let's say...
A: That idea is for the most part an exaggerated human philosophical construct.
Q: (L) So the idea that...
(Perceval) That to be good, thou shalt not kill...
(Atriedes) But which religion does that come from? The most killingest religion on the planet!
(Perceval) It does seem to... Killing another human being for a normal human being does seem to be quite a traumatic thing.
(Atriedes) It's socially inculcated.
(Perceval) I doubt it. I mean, for soldiers, they come back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, they're trained to kill, and they want to kill themselves afterwards, ya know? They can't handle the fact that they...
(Pierre) Maybe the difference is that Caesar was aware of the very fundamental reason why he was killing...
A: Caesar intended to eliminate or vastly reduce killing. He knew what he was up against.