I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.