Every man has convictions, some men who would see you and I dead are in all other rights good men, law abiding men, men with their own families their own livelihoods. But if a man would jeopardize my life, the lives of my battles, the lives of our respective families then I'll do everything in my power to stop them. This is all fact. You can have whatever peaceful pacifist idealism, practice it. It won't stop a man of a different creed or belief or agenda from harming you or those you love. I'm not a hard man, I'm a soldier but I don't pretend to be something I'm not. Men who kill, men who see death, are one way or another destroyed by it. I thank god for my brothers in arms who stomach it on my behalf. And I do what I do for them, not out of self righteousness or vanity, but out of respect and duty. May whatever God you believe in keep you safe, and be thankful for what you have.