Man has been deaths arch-patron. He is born to irrigate the world with mans blood. He has been a blood-shedder par excellence. Mans history is blood-red from cover to cover. Someone has said that prostitution is the oldest profession. What a travesty of history The killing of man by man antedates prostitution. Cain inaugurated the murdering profession. Since Cain, murdering has never looked back. Man deserves a sackful of Nobel Prizes for killing men throughout the ages. When Hobbes said, nature is red in tooth and claw, he only betrayed his ignorance of mans history. If nature is red in tooth and claw, man is redder in weapons of mass destruction. Man has out-earthquaked earthquakes and out-pestilenced pestilences. Animals kill to live. Man lives to kill. Mans blood is mans only oxygen. Man must be eternally at war with man. When man is not at war with foreigners, he is at war with his own compatriots. Foreign wars are waged for capturing foreigners wealth. National wars are waged for capturing compatriots belongings. All wars are money wars. There is no feeling like money-feeling. There is no honour like money-honour. Only the moneyed individuals are honourable. The moneyless individuals are there to be kicked about by the moneyed persons. There is only one debauchery. It is moneylessness. A moneyless man is a 'son of nobody ----- a social bastard. All wars, whether national or foreign, are reckless robberies. However, an external war is a very risky affair. But a domestic war is a very juicy affair. Under a domestic war, the powerful citizens enjoy robbing the powerless masses. The masses lament. The robbers do their best to convince the victims that there is no patriotism like the patriotism of being robbed by ones own powerful compatriots. According to Darwin, man is descended from the monkey. Had the monkey refused to be degenerated into man, there would have been no man and consequently no killing of man by man. Had the monkey stayed the monkey, there would have been eternal peace and tranquillity in the world. But the money is notorious for his mischievous nature. Probably, his mischievousness let him to be transmogrified into man. He must be enjoying witnessing man killing man. Undoubtedly, the monkey is the creator of human wars. He must be tried in the International Court of Justice, as a war criminal. Maybe, he is ruing the day he permitted Evolution to reshape him into 'man. But this can be discovered only by the court. The birth of man was the birth of wars. Man and war are twins. They are incestuously married. If the earth wants to be war free, it must get rid of man. A warless world must be a manless world. So long as man is here, wars cannot be elsewhere. There was a time when there was no man on earth. There were no wars. No American drones killing Afghani and Pakistani innocent citizens. No atomic bombs killing innocent Japanese. No Israelis killing Palestinians. No Egyptians killing Egyptians. No Syrians killing Syrians. No Yemenis killing Yemenis. No Libyans killing Libyans. There was no Pakistan. No Karachians killing Karachians. No gang rapes. No national corruption. No robberies. No martial laws. No election riggings. No fake academic degrees. No unemployment. No starvation. No mothers, because of extreme poverty, killing themselves by jumping into the rivers with their babies tied to their bodies. The manless earth was a paradise, which was envied even by the angels. Did the earth miss man? Make your own guesses. Now the earth has known man for millennia. If man were to become extinct, would the earth miss him? Not at all. Not at all. Rather it would be jubilant because it would no more be flooded with mans blood. The pre-man ages of the earth were ages of immense pleasure for the earth. Since mans arrival the earth has been witnessing immense sufferings being inflicted by man upon man. Were it possible for the earth to extinguish man, it would do so this very moment. Yes, this very moment. n The writer retired as professor of the Department of English, Government College University, Lahore.