A glimmer of light from the Far North! Bravo, Sir Booque. Your compassionate lucidity is heartwarming.

The problem of course, comes down to the election of "others", of categorization and blanket identities that make it so easy to elect some individuals as enemy in the game. This is fine for the purposes of playing, but when it becomes obsessive and automated in the mind, great crimes may be justified.

I forget who--a contemporary of Mr Ochs--once said, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

Hope blooms eternal in the human breast.