from The Warrior's Honour, by Michael Ignatieff

“The [articles of the Genva Convention] adopted by The International Committee drew upon...the codes of a warrior's honour...these codes vary from culture to culture and their common features are the oldest artifacts of human morality: from Christian chivalry... to the Japanese Bushido or way of the warrior... The codes acknowledged the moral paradox of battle: that those who fight ...bravely are bound [by]...mutual respect...”

“It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human.”