Our tragedy and opportunity as a whole tells us that we are caught with the hardwired instincts of primeval lethal savagery naturally embedded in predatory beasts, which we in fact are, in a world now demanding a true institutionalization of ethics as soon as possible, if we wish to survive as a civilized species - and this in spite of the patina we put on the predatory civilizations we support or examine. Indeed, armed with weapons of mass destruction...