Joe Haldeman - Human Quotes

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It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn't involuntary.

Joe Haldeman

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

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Human nature does change, and the fact that we've developed tools to direct that change is quintessentially human. And it must be a nearly universal concomitant to technological growth everywhere in the universe; otherwise there would be no universe. Unless we're the only technological intelligence in the universe, Julian pointed out; so far there's no evidence to the contrary. Maybe our own existence is evidence that we're the first creatures to evolve far enough to hit the reset button. Somebody does have to be first.
But maybe the first is always the last.

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