I Am Not Being Obtuse. You Are

Experience As Well As Common Sense Indicated That The Most Reliable Method Of Avoiding Self-extinction Was Not To Equip Oneself With The Means To Accomplish It In The First Place.

Most Mainstream Male Fiction Is Littered With Heroines, And Female Characters Are Basically So Great, You Want To Fall In Love With Them.

I Remember Being Shocked When I Discovered Some Of My School Pals Didn't Have Books In Their Homes. I Thought It Was Like Not Having Oxygen, Or Hot Water.

That Was How Divorced From The Human Scale Modern Warfare Had Become. You Could Smash And Destroy From Unthinkable Distances, Obliterate Planets From Beyond Their Own System And Provoke Stars Into Novae From Light-years Off... And Still Have No Good Idea Why You Were Really Fighting.

People Were Always Sorry. Sorry They Had Done What They Had Done, Sorry They Were Doing What They Were Doing, Sorry They Were Going To Do What They Were Going To Do; But They Still Did Whatever It Is. The Sorrow Never Stopped Them; It Just Made Them Feel Better. And So The Sorrow Never Stopped.