Death was sometimes the easiest route. With war, killing was a given. Hand holding wasn’t going to win you the war. It was the fastest track to losing. Morals be damned when your very philosophy and ideology were on the line. There has to be those who make the tough decisions so others can have the peace you are looking for. Trying to be a paragon of good and pacifism might be nice as an example, but that example falls flat when you're dead.