Eternity Matters | War in the now and forever

By Simon Chen
Updated July 18 2017 - 2:11pm, first published 11:55am

As a species, we humans are a strange bunch. Someone invents something and someone else thinks of how it can be used to exploit, harm or kill other people. Why do we do things like this? Alfred Nobel thought that by inventing, “…material or a machine which would have such a devastating effect that war from then on, would be impossible”. Less than ten years later (1884), Hiram Maxim invented an automatic gun that could fire 666 rounds in less than a minute. Writing about some of his inventions, The New York Times in 1897, “… suggested their mere existence might convince world leaders to settle conflicts diplomatically”. Nope. We still went on to have World War One.

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