Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Prolonged violence is a function of intelligence. Only humans have made an art of death. 
The salmon and the prairie dog met sudden violent death in the interest of the survival of their predators. The victims of Vlad the Impaler are said to have taken as long as three days to die while being gradually impaled on a sharp stake by their own weight. Who knows about the victims of Nazi scorched earth destruction in northern Norway?
The inevitable violence of nature is not an adequate excuse for the premeditated and gratuitous horrors perpetrated by us humans.
The salmon and the prairie dog met sudden violent death in the interest of the survival of their predators. The victims of Vlad the Impaler are said to have taken as long as three days to die while being gradually impaled on a sharp stake by their own weight. Who knows about the victims of Nazi scorched earth destruction in northern Norway?The inevitable violence of nature is not an adequate excuse for the premeditated and gratuitous horrors perpetrated by us humans.
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