(To refer to an earlier thread of ours: this is maybe what's wrong with an internal, subjective awareness of good and evil, and why we should have left the damn fruit alone.)

I would like to point out, and hopefully it will be at least somewhat reassuring, that it isn't always the morality of the people with the biggest guns that wins. Morality works as a meme, and the guy who gets killed can infect his killers' society with his concept of morality before (or indeed as) he dies.

Trouble with that, of course, is it works both ways -- and corruption of morality can be passed around just as nonviolently.