The fundamental of war has always been dehumanizing the enemy, seeing him as a soulless animal. - Robert J. Sawyer

I did learn one valuable lesson, though.
I learned that you can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.

It embodies, perhaps more clearly than anything else I've written, the central theme of all my work: namely, that clearheaded, unflinching, rational thinking is the only effective way to deal with reality.

Science holds our answer; knowledge—real knowledge, verifiable knowledge, not superstition, not religious nonsense—will be our salvation.