Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts. Herman Wouk
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It is very important for people to ask themselves if they are doing the right thing. If you are committing murder or committing suicide then that means that you are wrong. Therefore, when people do wrong things, they are really hurting themselves. It is not realistic to tell people to stop killing each other because killing each other will not make the world a better place.

Source: Dont Stop The Carnival

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