Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

by Iain M. Banks

they dealt in the intrinsically untoward, where rules were forged as you went along and were never the same twice anyway,

in all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”’

such a use of weapons when anything could become weapon