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“The instinct to kill is still very strong in all of the races of the planet, and
almost half of their combined creative ability and technological resources are
devoted, in one way or another, to the development and the manufacture of more
rapid and efficient means of intimidating, or of killing each other. At least once
in each generation, each nation finds an excuse to enter into armed conflict with
one or more other nations. Each side is determined to subdue or to destroy the
other, and every device or system which their minds can conceive, and their
technology can create, is used in some way in the furtherance of this senseless
purpose. These periodic acts of tragic nonsense have been performed, almost as a
ritual, by every tribe, race and nation, since the beginning of our ancestor’s
observations, more than one hundred generations ago!
“The leaders attempt to justify these mutual acts of mass slaughter in various
ways. They perform some truly amazing feats of moral and philosophical
gymnastics, in their determined efforts to convince themselves, and even their
victims, that their tremendously destructive acts of passion, brutality and greed,
are actually motivated by the highest of ideals and principles!