He shook his head. "No, I haven't. But that also sounds wrong." Free rein to guess about the food industry practices of 3005 A.D.
Zouichi could take someone's life without batting an eye, but conversely, saw referring to it as anything other than what it was -- killing -- as some sort of slight to them. As if he were shirking his duty to his victims, even if they weren't too likely to complain about it afterwards.
Maybe it wasn't quite the sanctity of life Zouichi was concerned with, but a sort of feeling that he would be disrespecting it should he look away at the moment it was extinguished.
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Zouichi could take someone's life without batting an eye, but conversely, saw referring to it as anything other than what it was -- killing -- as some sort of slight to them. As if he were shirking his duty to his victims, even if they weren't too likely to complain about it afterwards.
Maybe it wasn't quite the sanctity of life Zouichi was concerned with, but a sort of feeling that he would be disrespecting it should he look away at the moment it was extinguished.
And it was true that people had to eat.