If those other apes had nuclear weapons, the planet would already be dead.
Humans as a species aren't great, but certainly far better than the rest of the miserable beings on Earth.
There was one short story by De Maupassant, where a person is entrusted with taking care of an old horse. The horse was loved by its owners, but now they can't deal with it, out of sympathy and sadness for its inevitable end.
So the man they pay to feed it, hates the horse, out of thinking that it's a stupid animal which doesn't deserve money spent on it.
Moral of the story being that all the people let their emotions dictate the meaningless stuff they do - and there's the horse, which was simply incapable of understanding why it had to suffer so much.
Humans as a species aren't great, but certainly far better than the rest of the miserable beings on Earth.
There was one short story by De Maupassant, where a person is entrusted with taking care of an old horse. The horse was loved by its owners, but now they can't deal with it, out of sympathy and sadness for its inevitable end.
So the man they pay to feed it, hates the horse, out of thinking that it's a stupid animal which doesn't deserve money spent on it.
Moral of the story being that all the people let their emotions dictate the meaningless stuff they do - and there's the horse, which was simply incapable of understanding why it had to suffer so much.