Imagine a world so evolved that murder did not exist, and not due to stringent laws or retribution but because the people out grew such behavior. They evolve beyond war and domination, greed, and other trivials. People were healthy and lived long lives. All was peaceful even as technology grew in wonder.
On this world the air was so clean that one could see as far in the distance as the eye had power. Fruit exploded with wonderful, pleasing flavors. Water was so pure that it was almost weightless.
I come from a world that was like this but something went terribly wrong and changed everything, everywhere forever. This was nearly twenty thousand years ago. I can remember even now that there were so many populated worlds. We devoured them all, after millions of years being civilized people our culture digressed and murdered first ourselves, then others.
Ah (sigh), we could not be stopped, our hunger could not be filled. We are the oldest people in the universe, and when we infested other worlds we came unobserved and destroyed whatever we contacted, leaving planets baron of human life and in total ruin. We could not help ourselves. It was all so new to us then. Maybe if we had a set of rules from the beginning, maybe if we had never tinkered with nature in such a way, but we did and today I bare the weight of what a single man of science did so long ago. I have to carry the responsibility, he was my brother. He was my closest friend.
I killed my closest friend with my bare hands, watching the light as it faded from his eyes. His brown eyes that looked just like mine.
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