War empowers soldiers to destroy not only things but human beings, to revoke another person’s charter to live on this earth. The frenzy of this destruction—and when unit discipline breaks down, or there was no unit discipline to begin with, frenzy is the right word—sees armed bands crazed by the poisonous elixir the power to bring about the obliteration of others delivers. All things, including human beings, become objects—objects to either gratify or destroy or both.
Objectification from war
