We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples. (Seneca)

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples.

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