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  But those technologies also move us forward technologically. Without competition, we would all be seeing Kumbaya around a fire, in a cave, while someone keep an eye out for the wolves outside.
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  We've spent the past several thousand years learning new ways to kill each other. >
  
  This isn't the craziest part. The craziest part is that we then convene large committees to decide which are acceptable ways and which aren't, and then we condemn those who use the means the committee decided were out of bounds.
  Knives are ok. But triangular knives are off limits.
  Bombs are ok, even large clusters of bombs, but not cluster bombs.
  Chemical weapons, that depends on which ones you choose. >
  
  This is why I hope aliens never find us, because if they treat us the way we treat ourselves, we're in trouble. >
  
  Violence is next to godliness. Or lacking a higher power, violence is the highest power.