TheStar.com - Battling to understand our genocidal instinct: "'To get a war going you need the people on the top policy level to create the vision,' says Adelman. 'You need the people in the middle who administer the plan and give the orders. And you need the `little guys' who actually kill. They are usually not motivated at all. They need different kinds of inducements, like fear, peer pressure and drugs. It's a distasteful thing they are going to do, and it's hard work convincing them.'...

The line between those who commit crimes against neighbours and those who resist the urge to kill may be skepticism about authority."