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Letter to the Editor
Silence May or May Not Be Golden

Dear Editor, Silence may or may not be

Thank you for reading The Standard newspaper online!

When Will We Ever Learn?

Dear Editor,

When you keep making a mistake over and over again and never attempt to correct the mistake, your sanity is questionable. Yet the human race, throughout history, has killed millions upon millions of us, in what we call wars. This is no longer questionable, it is insanity.

Human beings are very intelligent and at the same time can be extremely ignorant. We killed 120 million people just in the twentieth century: 38 million in WWI, 76 million in WWII, 3 million in the Vietnam War, 1 million in the Iraq War, another million in the Afghanistan War. Other species on this planet kill each other very rarely, and when they do, the motivation is for a food source.

Human beings are destroying the environment, and the possibility of destroying the whole planet with nuclear bombs is now distressingly evident. War has been part of the human experience since the Stone Age, when we lived in caves. Most of us accept and encourage war as a way of life. When will we ever learn?

There is a commandment that states: Thou shalt not kill.

Dennis C. Miller

One thought on “When Will We Ever Learn?”

  1. My teenage grandson asked me once..why do we have wars in other countries that are in conflict with each other….I told him that’s because if we don’t protect countries that are being attacked by evil…those same countries will eventually be our neighbors

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