The suffering of these conflicts radiates through time like a fierce heat, inciting a reflex in the mind that would typically occur in the body: We distance ourselves from the death and destruction by conceptualizing humanity as just another species, crawling senselessly all over the planet, risking its extinction through frivolous squabbles over resources, national prowess, and ethnic hatred. Looking down from this imagined outer space, the heat is bearable, and it becomes possible to feel what we would otherwise describe as “unthinkable,” “unimaginable,” and “indescribable”: the regular human activity of organized killing.