”You can’t play what if, not at this level,” Rafael said. “We have to concentrate on the immediate
threat.”
“There wouldn’t be an immediate threat if we’d used the quantumbusters.”
“We
don’t even know that,” Rafael said. Not
for certain.
“It
wasn’t the technology which let us down; we suffered a failure of will. We’re too civilized to push the genocide
button.”
“I’m glad,” Justine said. “That
reluctance to exterminate any creature that might be a difficult problem
defines us as a species. We don’t
operate at their level. That’s got to be
worth something.”
“Not when you’re dead, it isn’t.”
(from Judas
Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton)
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