Some say that to repeat the same action over and over again and expect a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
I tend to agree, particularly when you apply this rule of thumb to a whole species. Our Human species does this all the time, an example of this are the news stories coming out of Gaza and Lebanon at the moment! They put me in mind of an experience we had while visiting Cambodia earlier this year (see picture above) A rather grim reminder and memorial to the people that were the innocent victims of the "Killing Fields", a pointless slaughter, among many, in the name of God, greed, power and/or political certitude.
When you look at these remains you must (and do) ponder the only viable question any compassionate Human being would have, why and what was all that pain and suffering for? In the end you realise that we're all just monkeys in shoes, half a chromosome away from chimps. I somehow think that whatever the rights and wrongs of the current Middle Eastern situation, and there are many on all sides, we will get to the end of it sometime in the future and ponder that very same question.
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