There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilisation, into a regiment of ghosts.
It is said that science will dehumanise people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.
We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped.