Let's say that the river we must cross is the act of killing. Firstly we must acknowledge that there are at least two categories of killers: those bound by professional duty (a respectable compelling interest in the death of an other), and those for whom it is strictly a personal interest and therefore the act is not sanctioned by immediate others. There is as well the question of the ordinary v. the extraordinary. That is, there are great differences in contexts for killing which we need to view from in order to comprehend the contrary levels of human justification (between the serial killer v the soldier, and the passion driven murderer v the dispassionate executioner).
In other words, we must acknowledge that extraordinary circumstances transform ordinary men, cause severe declension of their moral compass.
So to align our killing and the river, all killers come in contact with this compulsion, this river, but have different motives for engaging it. The ordinarily accepted man finds himself taken up by the river to either fight our wars or perform an execution; while the extraordinarily nihilistic serial killer or the average criminally passionate killer choose to cross that river of what we normally consider a worthy practice.
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