"War, after all, is simply a letting
loose of
organised murder, theft and piracy on
a foe"
Writing in 1915, Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw, with satiric
irony,
suggests measures the British might employ in the war against Germany.
suggests measures the British might employ in the war against Germany.
All we have to do is to kill, say, 75 per cent. of all the women in Germany under 60. Then we may leave Germany her fleet and her money, and say "Much good may they do you."Men are comparatively of no account: kill 90 per cent of the German men, and the remaining 10 per cent can repeople her. But kill the women, and Delenda est Carthago. (Carthage must be destroyed). Now this is exactly what our Militarists want to happen to Germany. Therefore the objection to killing women becomes in this case the reason for doing it.
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