"Lethality"

       One word keeps going over in my head these last few days, and it's "lethality."  I learned from the "gun talk" on the air waves that that is a chief criterion of interest and prestige amongst gun owners.  It is a high order value for desirousness and...decision to purchase.

      The aridness of that word, the abstraction from reality of the very sound of it must be a way to keep one from thinking about other things like "death" or "blood" or "mayhem" or " conscience."