We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
74 The people do not fear at all to die; What's gained therefore by threatening them with death? If you could always make them fear decease, As if it were a strange event and rare, Who then would dare to take and slaughter them? The executioner is always set To slay, but those who substitute for him Are like would-be master carpenters Who try to chop as that skilled craftsman does And nearly always mangle their own hands! -- tr. R. Blakney