We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture society...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality the two basic ideas of democracy are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered freedom and equality are mutually exclusive just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.