Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.

Stars are better off without us.

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?

Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.