"Killing is not easy." How do you explain it from the point of view of (a) The Captain, and (b) The Barber in "Just Lather, That's All"?It's...

For the Captain, killing is a hard, dirty job. He often
spends days at a time hunting down the rebels--sometimes killing them and sometimes
capturing them to later torture and execute. He may well be the most hated man in the
village though, in his mind, he is only doing the job which he has been assigned. For
the barber, killing the Captain is also not an easy choice. He is not a trained soldier,
and spilling blood does not come easily for him. The barber also worries about how
people will think of his method--slitting the Captain's throat while he is in the
barber's chair; spilling blood also goes against the barber's most important code. But
perhaps the barber's biggest worry is what his life will be like if he kills the
Captain. Where will he go? Will he ever be safe? In the end, the barber's cowardice wins
out, as the Captain had suspected all along.