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In 1864 when ordering the Sand Creek Massacre, US Army Colonel Chivington said, "nits make lice" to justify killing children.
And the painful reason I already knew about this was because Gary Gygax used it to explain why killing goblin babies was okay (also calling Chivington's words an 'observation', rather than personal views, as though Chivington was explaining a fact he'd learned)
Looking this up right now and wow he said that in 2005.
I know about Chivington as the villain of Silas Soule's story. Soule had fought alongside John Brown in Kansas, then joined the Union Army to fight against the Confederates. He was a Captain under Chivington at Sand Creek and refused the order, then reported the massacre, for which he was shot dead in the street.
Yet another reason to never touch DND with a ten foot pole and instead play any of the hundreds of better RPGs