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“adventuring” Hungarians did.” (I always liked this euphemism: “adventure.” It is as if they were just going on a picnic, with cold cuts softened under the saddle, trading, traveling, carrying kalach and kumis in the baskets they wove. They did not rape, they did not plunder, and they did not set fire to villages, towns, churches, they only “adventured.” And rambled a little. Perhaps this is where the seemingly unstoppable process of our historical self-delusion originated from.) And either there or in the slightly later “Cro-Magnon” there appears killing for enjoyment, which we can call a new element, © killing for pleasure After a while, a law had to be made because of this killing as an end in itself, for mere pleasure. This is even carved in stone as the “thou shalt not kill” command of the Ten Commandments of Moses. Of course, this is a bit wrong. Correctly translated, this is “thou shalt not murder,” that is, do not kill—out of self-interest. The Hebrew term (Tircach) means murder. Killing is different, since it is not always for selfish reasons. In fact, it may be legitimate, for example, for food. I can kill a mammoth if I am hungry (and not a vegan), but I cannot kill a mammoth out of passion. Even the law recognizes the legitimacy of killing in certain situations (e.g. self-defense), but not killing for self-interest. It is a matter of premeditation. From now on, we will consider these questions on the basis of natural law, in the rational world. This is also why it is unfair (I could stylishly say “unreasonable”) to compare animals to humans (more precisely: to compare humans to animals): the animal does not kill for pleasure, the human does. The goal of the animal is to obtain food or to protect itself. (This is despite an ethologist of our time concluding that self-serving aggression and killing are also present in animals. This may be, but it is not 33 “Adventuring” (“kalandozés”) is the Hungarian euphemism for the Hungarian invasions and raids into Europe c. 9-10" centuries.
