Reply #10: Also teaches you to value some things. Like human life (all monotheism

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teaches that). Yes .. there is good and bad in much humans do. But hell - fire was also in the early stories. Allowed humans to develop bigger brains by having control over the timing of when they ate. So they could eat meat. And it was no longer feast or famine. Also could preserve food.

Humans learn. Unfortunately we seem to have to learn the horrors of nefarious type leaders every 50 years. Don't know why. Maybe this is the last time. Maybe this time the UN will require brain scans for all world leaders. I can dream can't I!