Loading ...“… I have hopes that mankind can improve and that we can treat each other better…” i have those hopes too, but in my reading of history i have seen no evidence that such improvement has ever been manifested. in the last century, we have seen a couple hundred million people slaughtered, mostly by people drawing government paychecks.
…WWI
the armenian genocide
belgians in the congo
holodomor
stalin’s purges and deportations
nanking
holocaust (jews, gypsies, and various others)
WWII (including aerial bombing of civilian cities – dresden, coventry, nagasaki, hiroshima)
the long march in china
korea
vietnam
pol pot
the running sore that is the middle east…
just when is this “improvement” scheduled to begin? homo sapiens is a vicious, bloodthirsty species. denial is not a river in egypt.
niven’s first law:
“never throw shit at an armed man.”
niven’s second law:
“never stand next to someone throwing shit at an armed man.”