Hey, everybody, I "won" another fight with your Dad last night. He was trying to defend his "killing aliens" X-box games as harmless, and I was arguing that death should never be impersonal, that I didn't mind Harrison Ford killing the bad guy in "Firewall" with a pickax because he was defending his family, there was a specific, personal reason for killing that specific person, and that I agreed with Father Bob's analysis that part of the decay of Western society dates back to the mechanization of death in the First World War. Dad was splutteringly holding his own until I brought in the fact that Japan kicked the Westerners out of Japan for, like, 400 years because firearms were so against their warrior code, that they considered long-distance death to be dishonorable AND understood that it would lead to a total disruption of their society, that he rolled his eyes and walked away . . .