"You're kidding, right? You have to be kidding," he laughs humorlessly, tossing his chopsticks onto the table without much care. "You're seriously comparing something that happened hundreds of years ago with the same species arguing about rights and what happened, oh, a week ago in which one species committed genocide on others just because they can? That's the argument you're going to make?"

He stares at her, waiting for her response. Because if that's the path she's going down, ridiculous hyperbole and comparing normal war to a war between lions and gazelles, then he's not going to bother trying to talk it out or be reasonable with her. He's seen both types up close. They're not the same.

Humans can be terrible people. Kyle will never argue that. And he won't disagree that there are the occasional outliers who might be alright. But that's not what she's saying.