 In contemporary terms, of course, we could reconstruct the passage as offering a somewhat bizarre analogical argument for the conclusion that “killing robber-people isn’t killing people.” The Mohists themselves do not understand it that way, however. They do not see the passage as presenting a series of premises for the one-sentence conclusion “killing robber-people isn’t killing people.” They see it as laying out a series of syntactically parallel utterances to illustrate that utterances like “robber-people are people, [but] killing robber-people isn’t killing people” and “robber-people are people, [but] caring about robbers isn’t caring about people” fit into an accepted pattern of statements describing a familiar kind of situation in which, although x is y, Fx is not deemed an act of the kind Fy. 