William James in "The Variety of Religious Experience": "And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers."

So if you perceive life less like a war or not always like a war does this mean that you are shifting towards an amoral position? Is the amoralist by nature a privileged person?

It's precisely the aspect of war that makes most morality such a gloomy affair.