[ He shrugs. Takes another drink. ]

It gets ugly. But it can get ugly when people go at each other with knives, too.

[ These days he's fairly convinced that it's human nature for people to go at each other with as much brutality as they can muster. Just how it goes. ]

The scale changed, though. I think that's the big difference from your time. If I had a good rifle, I could kill a man a thousand feet away. If I had a missile, I could do it from a different planet.