> Uh. What? I'm not sure if it's true, but I see what they mean. A distinction between killing over power, and killing over ideas. I can see the attraction of

> Uh. What? I'm not sure if it's true, but I see what they mean. A distinction between killing over power, and killing over ideas. I can see the attraction of the idea that killing over ideas is a modern phenomenon, although it's probably not entirely true (in either direction -- most wars over ideas are perhaps really about power anyway... but is couching it as a war over ideas a modern phenomenon? Probably still not entirely, but there might be something to it...)