As I separate religion from spirituality, I say that the dichotomy of the wolves is akin to the Devil or the Holy Spirit. Human beings have choices, and which wolf or which they listen to is the stronger one.

The old saying that guns don't kill people, people kill people, is right. I remember four episodes of Australian soap opera A Country Practice, from 1987-8. In one episode, a man who was a gun nut had a gun stored in a broom cabinet and his granddaughter went to the broom cabinet to get a broom for her mother, and the gun fell down and discharged, harming her. It was the fact that her grandfather didn't put the safety catch on or store the gun properly that caused that. In the other episodes, a boy was being bullied by another boy who was the son of his father's boss. The father told him that he had to face his fears, and he took his father's gun and shot the boy. He missed major organs. In that case, the son felt weak and was influenced by a hard father.

The same kind of thing can be applied to Albert Einstein and the atomic bomb. He was a pacifist and humanitarian and believed, naively, that if a country had the bomb, it would act as a deterrent. He was distressed when he heard that the bomb had been used in Hiroshima.