How easily, how positively these men of science assert that the deaths of children before they come of age is a benefit to humanity.
How easily we read their words and suspend the realization that they are talking about real children dying in positive terms.
That is one of the abilities that our educations confer on us.
Even with the historical realities of the genocides of the 20th century, Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all of the others are there to inform our minds and consciences.
We say we will never forget but we don't have to, we don't even notice what the words on the page mean in flesh and blood. And that people do what those words advocate, in flesh and blood.
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