Marshall Fritz, the heroic president of The Alliance for the Separation of School and State, points out that one reason so many adults accept the “mercy killing” of those with a diminished “quality of life” is the moral relativism they had drilled into their heads in government schools. Combine this moral relativism with nationalism (symbolized by the schools’ ritual of making the children pledge allegiance to the state) and you have an explanation of why so many blindly support the state’s wars.