"Homo sapiens = a species that apparently enjoys and condones the slaughter of it's own kind."

The irony is, of course, that we will soon render ourselves extinct and what will be laid down in the rock, a few million years from now, is not the fact that we slaughtered each other but that we wiped out countless thousands of other living things that we were too arrogant, short-sighted and stupid to share the planet with. The American writer Jared Diamond likens non-humans to rivets holding an aeroplane togther - and presently we're busily knocking those rivets out ... when we're not busily killing each other ...