ABSTRACT
Margaret Atwood’s scenario of worldwide peacemaker technology shows what’s at stake. Her deaggressed utopia, premised on the elimination of the human race, is of course one that no sane person would consent to. Judging by the atrocities committed in every part of the world from the dawn of time, people should be willing to pay almost any price to free ourselves from violence, murder, and war. Asked to choose between Earth and Eden, most would cling to the world awash in blood and killing rather than take the blood and killing away. Deaggression creates the ultimate shooting gallery, turning humanity into so many clay pigeons for anyone who dodged the procedure. The only difference is that it is killing humanity bit by bit, rather than in one go like in Oryx and Crake. However far-fetched the scenario, deaggression makes us vulnerable to non-terrestrial civilizations that could exploit our inability to defend ourselves.
