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On Sat, 16 May 2026 18:12:44 -0400, The True Melissa
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thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Verily, in article <3doh0l15cvffflgbhpqnopubrs4r6bjb0k@4ax.com>, did >Man@the.keyboard deliver unto us this message:
Inevitability
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With guns on Starships,
Some scared child will start shooting
Ending all Mankind.
- J.
If anyone builds it, everyone dies?
Not *everyone*.
The guys the young soldier-sailor shoots at first will get all riled
up and drop rocks onto lovely, old Terra.
*BIG* rocks.
*LOTS* of big rocks.
See it from their perspective: if they leave one single family of
apes alive, anywhere, then ten to twenty generations later there will
be Starships armed to the teeth, all full of growling monkeys driven
by fuzzy legends of mankillers from Space.
Anyone who knows *anything* about humans learns, fairly rapidly, that
they bear grudges for five times longer than the universe will exist,
that they can be far more single-minded than a nuclear weapon and that
they can breed like rather incestuous monkeys.
Leave even two alive and you've got future issue from their future
issues.
Short, but clear and impactful. Thanks for posting it.
I like the Haiku type format. In English it is incredibly potent. It
is, of course, far better in the original but it does work in English.
I wonder whether the Japanese like our version?
J.
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