But even if that were true, even if you could kill enough people and subjugate others to have a very comfortable existence, should you do it? I understand an appeal to morality in a society of amoral beings is basically yelling to the void, but come on. Some things are wrong, regardless of how easy your life could become if you did them. I don’t think Americans have ever understood that, and whoever did has historically been shunned (John Brown comes to mind), often imprisoned or assassinated.