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this human horror indeed exceeded any other possible fate. Not only because it was without mercy, but because it was acted upon rationally and without compulsion. It was a choice. The killing was unrelated to the larger war, and served no purpose other than evil. Men chose to do this to other men and invented reasons and places and myths in order to satisfy their desire in a logical and methodical way.
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing. A matter of choice.
“You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.”
Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death.
