A bed-time story for children about to die
Once upon a time there was a civilised country. Its people were intelligent and reasonable, by human standards, but it suffered the misfortune of acquiring some leaders who saw some advantage in leading them astray. These leaders used an age-old method of getting, increasing and keeping power: the old trick of persuading most of the population that a minority of “different” people in the country were bad and dangerous. This trick almost always works for any population of humans. The trick works best of all when the “bad and dangerous” people own something valuable that can…