Justice & Law Quote by Ramman Kenoun

Kenoun’s line lands like a moral trapdoor: the act doesn’t change, but the costume does. By pairing “ultimate crime” with “fulfillment of duty,” he exposes how societies outsource conscience to institutions, then call the paperwork virtue. The sentence is built on a blunt hinge phrase - “while on the other hand” - that mimics casual, almost bureaucratic reasoning. That tonal flatness is the point: it’s how killing gets normalized, filed, saluted.

The specific intent isn’t to equate all soldiers with murderers or to flatten the complexities of war. It’s to indict the language that makes lethal violence legible, even admirable, once it’s wrapped in uniform and flag. “In uniform” operates as shorthand for state permission: a visible badge that converts a taboo into a job description. The subtext is about moral laundering. The uniform doesn’t just authorize violence; it absorbs the stigma, redistributing guilt across chain of command, policy, and “orders,” until no single person feels like the author of the act.

Contextually, the quote speaks to modern warfare’s rhetorical ecosystem: recruitment ads, patriotic ceremonies, and official euphemisms (“neutralize,” “targets,” “collateral”) that keep the public emotionally insulated. Kenoun’s cynicism hits because it points to a social bargain we rarely name: we condemn private violence to prove we’re civilized, then reserve a sanctioned lane where violence becomes civilization’s tool. The discomfort is the mechanism. It forces the reader to ask whether legality and morality are aligned, or merely synchronized by power.