Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

“Injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. That’s why most weapons of war are designed to injure instead of kill. Wounded are more of a drain than the dead.”

Violence, as unpleasant as it may seem, fulfills a necessary social function in chimpanzees.

“There’s nothing nobler than working for a peaceful future,” I said, trying to appeal to his vanity, “but there won’t be a future if we don’t secure the present.”

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”