I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.