Death strikes down the good and the bad alike. For every monster stopped, a saint also. Or perhaps it is ten monsters for every saint. Or ten saints for every monster. Who can say? Whence your assurance that it is better to slaughter a billion people every decade than risk the evil that they might do?
BTW, while accounts differ over how Genghis Khan died, he was in his late 60s. While 67 is not 37, he did not die of old age, and his empire outlived him anyway.
Death strikes down the good and the bad alike. For every monster stopped, a saint also. Or perhaps it is ten monsters for every saint. Or ten saints for every monster. Who can say? Whence your assurance that it is better to slaughter a billion people every decade than risk the evil that they might do?
BTW, while accounts differ over how Genghis Khan died, he was in his late 60s. While 67 is not 37, he did not die of old age, and his empire outlived him anyway.