1397. There are people like this in military service, who love nothing but slaughter and looting, taking pleasure in these alone. However, with those who do this from duty, thinking of those they kill as the enemy, thus who do so on command, the case is different. Some of these I have also met who are among the more blessed, even though they had been soldiers. But it is the inward qualities that condemn in the other life, that is, what a person's intention is, or as they say, what he is of his own free will. 1748, 15 March.