“No,” Morrow said. “I can’t accept that. I don’t always agree with the Planners. But they aren’t killers.”… — Stephen Baxter
“No,” Morrow said. “I can’t accept that. I don’t always agree with the Planners. But they aren’t killers.”
“You think not?” Uvarov laughed again. “The survivalists—your ‘Planners’—are psychotic. Of course. As I am. And you. We are a fundamentally flawed species. Most of humanity, for most of its history, has been driven by a series of mass psychotic delusions. The labels changed, but the nature of the delusions barely varied...”
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Try to remember this lesson. It might keep you alive a little longer. The most precious thing to a human being is a mind-set: more precious than one’s own life, even. Human history has taught us that lesson time and again, with its endless parade of wars—human sacrifices en masse—thousands of deaths over the most trivial of differences of religious interpretation.
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