{{Pause=2}} CHAPTER 14 {{PAUSE=1}}A Suicidal Humanity {{Pause=2}} "Is this the most deadly?" I asked Lya. "The most dangerous and the most sadistic, because it will bring the end of humanity slowly. It makes us sad to know that while the Earth humans are attacking each other with chemical weapons, another world, situated on the outside of your solar system, also is planning to attack you with weapons and chemical reactions." "In my world, could we impede the proliferation of these weapons?" "You cannot impede them if the Earth human will not give up his hate. You cannot induce the human being to his full consciousness, nor teach him to live intensely the transitory cycle of existence that you have reserved, nor can we teach him that he is not the owner of any of that for which he fights, and that at least it would be preferable to do something for his humanity, always in majority ascendant. He has damaged his own humanity such and continues to do so... The only thing that can settle his bellicosity is death." "Death?" "I am not here, Professor, to speak of the destruction of the Earth human being, I am in your world to tell you that you should fight for your opportunity to live." "Lya... I don't know if I admire you or love you... or to try to forget you. But if you can fight for the peace of a world that is not even yours, there must be an immensely valiant place in the depths of your heart." We had arrived at the city, and I left Lya at the entrance to the highway, in an uninhabited park. I returned alone... immensely alone in the profundities of a hostile world, submerged in an ocean shared by other planets... in the immensities of distances never measured before by man.. If we persisted in thinking that the fact of having been born made us owners of the Universe, until a more powerful civilization than ours comes to conquer us. Thanks to the false pride with which we surround ourselves, ... we may deserve what we get! {{PAUSE=2}}