"...because if you try Zon-Kuthon sends strike teams after you and you won't survive unless you kill them first?  I'm not having an easy time figuring out what killing people has to do with getting power.  In my visualization it mostly gets you dead people, which, at least where I come from, you can't take a bunch of corpses to the neighborhood bartering-fair and say 'Would somebody like to trade me a lot of power for this bunch of corpses.'"

"...because if you try Zon-Kuthon sends military squads after you and you won't survive unless you kill them first?  I'm not having an easy time figuring out what killing people has to do with getting power.  In my visualization it mostly gets you dead people, which, at least where I come from, you can't take a bunch of corpses to the neighborhood bartering-fair and say 'Would somebody like to trade me a lot of power for this bunch of corpses.'"