" If we accord the highest value to the life of the individual, if we understand life to be a quantitative concept that must be maintained for as long as possible, then death is our foremost enemy and war becomes absolutely meaningless, absolutely undersirable. If we do not accord the highest value to the life of the individual, but to some element of that life, a property, or to something outside of it, an idea, then we consider life as something qualitative, something more than the sum of cells and living days, in other words we hold that there is something more hallowed than life, and then the equation is simple and one might choose to die for it. "

― Karl Ove Knausgård , Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)