War kills, obviously, but it also destroys our humanity(or morality, depending on your religious views or lack of them), as evidenced by the following
article that describes how U.S. soldiers are trading their photos of war gore for access to porn.
"The captions that accompany these images, which were apparently written by the soldiers who posted them, laugh and gloat over the bodies. The soldier who posted a picture of a corpse lying in a pool of his own brains and entrails wrote, "What every Iraqi should look like." The photograph of a corpse whose jaw has apparently rotted away, leaving a gaping set of upper teeth, bears the caption "bad day for this dude." One soldier posted three photographs of corpses lying in the street and titled his collection "DIE HAJI DIE." The soldiers take pride, even joy, in displaying the dead. "
Thanks to Elisabeth at
Highland City Review for the link.