Originally Posted by TheBrutalTruth

Yeah...

To paraphrase a book I read recently (Empire by something Card (same guy that wrote Ender's Game))

If you are dealing with a dog that bites and snarls at you there are few good options open to you. Firstly, if you beat the dog then you are just left with a beaten dog, and the problem is not resolved. If you kill the dog then you have a dead dog, but if you remove the reasons why it bites and snarls at you the problem is resolved. The dog is still alive and isn't even your enemy.