A warrior's argument

"Honour and glory? A warrior's life is void of it!"
"Fighting for righteousness? Fighting for peace? Fighting for God and country?"
"What does it mean for you to fight?"
"To defend my loved ones, to protect the weak, to aid the helpless, to free the opressed!"
"What then do you need to win a battle, to win a war?"
"Strength and courage, wits and sharpness, vigil and endurance."
"At the core of it, do you not need to kill?"
"Should the need arise... yes. It is but an unfortunate product of war."
"Is killing not a sin; the transgression of a moral principle?"
"Well... it isn't pleasant nor do i derive pleasure from it."
"Then why do you kill?"
"It is unavoidable in war! I would rather be free of this moral burden... but in battle, should the need arise... it becomes a dastardly neccessity."
"A neccessity? Tell a mother, a widow, a daughter who lossed a loved one that is was a neccessity that their father, their husband, their son had to die!"
"If it wasn't them, It would be I who is in the grave."
"And therefore you kill."
"Yes..."
"In preperation for a battle, we are drilled in the techniques of killing; trained to fight with aggresion, to fight without fear, are we not?
"True..."
"What drives aggresion?"
"Anger... rage?"
"Is one fearless when death is knocking on the door intermitently, when writhed faces stare at you with their last breaths?"
"No."
"Anger and fear - derived from the deadly sin of wrath is it not? You draw your strength from anger, sometimes to an extent where the sea of red overcomes you; you kill brutally, savagely, mercilessly. Your fear causes you to react without thought, it nurtures the selfishness in you, it destroys the tranquility of your soul!"
"..."
"Do you call killing someone's father, husband or son honour? Is being reduced to your animal-like instincts glorious?"
"..."
"Isn't killing an intrinsic aspect of a warriors life; like wings of a bird, hoofs of a horse. Killing is an integral way of life of a warriot rather than just an evil by-product."
"..."
"Speechless now are you not you self-righteous fool?"
"Well..."
"Well what?"
"Well... would anyone with a sane mind, with an ounce of goodness in them, enter a battle just for the sake of killing?"
"I... I... I don't think so."
"Would anyone with a tinge of righteousness, enter a war for the sake to experience bloodlust, to experience killing without any legitimate reason?"
"Probably not..."
"Would anyone with loved ones leave their homes for the sake of killing when they themselves could be seized by death without notice?"
"No... I guess not."
"Why then, do warriors do battle? Why do kingdoms and nations fight wars? Why do they do so even with the knowledge that people will kill and be killed?"
"Because there are things worth fighting for?"
"Even worth killing? Dare I say muder?"
"Probably?"
"I ask you then, why did you choose this brutal unforgiving path of a warrior? To kill? For gold and repute? For freedom?"
"For peace..."
"For Peace? Oh, the irony of it, to fight for peace!"
"Our kingdom has been in chaos since the fall of our King. The Royal family has been in strife for that coveted throne, order in the kingdom has been lost. Didn't you join the army also with the hope of restoring the peace we once had?"
"Yes... then i shall pose another question."
"You sure have alot of questions..."
"In raiding the bandits, killing the outlaws, forestalling the rebels and terrorist destroying the peace, do you see yourself fighting for peace?"
"Sadly... no."
"You realise that through our battles, through our raids, through the fights and killings we witness and survive that the unlawful people we kill are very human; that we too destroy some other people's peace."
"True."
"We are warriors who started with noble ambitions, with righteous reasons and good hearts... Ultimately though, we are foot soldiers and these goals are not plausible; we do not see them happening nor being accomplished. We have learnt how to kill and we only know how to kill. We have lost those noble goals because we do not see them! What we have left is to fight for honour and glory."
"Honour and glory? What honour and glory? There is no honour nor glory in a warriors life. Didn't you derive that conclusion yourself?"
"Our honour and glory comes from giving our all in fighting. In fighting, we do our best in order to complete our mission at hand, in order to survive... and most importantly, to ensure that our brother in arms return in one piece. Through my battles, my honour and glory comes from doing the best for my brothers till i have breathed my last breath. We are probably still alive not solely on luck or fate; but because someone took a blow for us, someone covered our back, someone,who sacrificed himself for you and I. Therefore I will give my all for my brother in arms for what was done for me; sacrificing what i have to give, my morals, even my life. Giving my all; that is the greatest act of love for my comrade, that is my Honour and Glory!"
"Hoho... I guess that is true when you put it that way."
"My brother in arms... for Honour and Glory, till death do us part."
"I rather we live pass this tumultuous period and go back to our peaceful lives."
"Indeed.. indeed. Woe to us though, for I think peace would be a concept we grasp no longer when this is over."