And even if there were, Enoch asked himself, how could one man—one man, alone—take it upon himself to play the role of God for the entire race? By what right did one man make a decision that affected all the rest, all the billions of others? Could he, if he did, ever be able, in the years to come, to justify his choice? How could a man decide how bad war might be and, in comparison, how bad stupidity? The answer seemed to be he couldn’t. There was no way to measure possible disaster in either circumstance.
