Killing, The Paradox

The best way to get your enemies down

to a manageable number is kill some.

Everyone understands the procedure.

Everyone gets the math.

And it's vastly easier than loving them,

they being largely unloveable.

But there's more to this than arithmetic,

and thus, the reasoning, flawed.

The practice is tried and thoroughly disproven:

again and again and again.

Subtraction turns out to be, by mistake,

more akin to multiplication.