Is Murder Really That Bad? One of the features that define “modernity” is the limitation of individual consciousness. From the more “exact” sciences, which denied knowledge of the things themselves, to the arts, which made nihilism their brush, pencil, sound and inspiration. Of course, the first laboratory of ideas would not be left out: politics. And so, the twentieth century gave birth to its triplets: fascism, nazism and communism — unfortunately not aborted — , which turn human lives into mere obstacles to their messianic future. For, as Viktor Frankl already concluded, if human life is just a random combination of molecules, it doesn’t hurt to kill a few hundred millions of them, am I right? I mean, it is no coincidence that the French Revolution killed ten times more people in one year than the Spanish Inquisition in four centuries. Genocide is the natural state of “enlightened” modernity.