Excerpts From “Reflections on War and Death” by Sigmund Freud (1939), which is freely available on Apple Books here: https://books.apple.com/us/book/reflections-on-war-and-death/id494504141 “…for our conscience is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is; it has its origin in nothing but ‘social fear.’”  “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and…