Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity unique among animals to make counterevolutionary choices.
Jared Diamond
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On the beginning of the mid1990s genocidal war in Rwanda
Within six weeks an estimated 800000 Tutsi representing about threequarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda or 11 of Rwandas total population had been killed.
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What makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
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