"It's true, I tell you," Mark insisted religiously. "Hundreds and hundreds of people. Maybe even as many as a thousand, all dressed alike—with clothes, I mean. And they didn't shoot each other—they just killed the people they were fighting—the hundreds of people on the other side."
"Other side of what?"
Mark frowned. "Oh, I guess that is just an expression. But that's what happened, anyway. Before civilization got started, people cooperated like that."
"That's just a whole lot of theory," Jennette insisted. "Nobody's going to make me ever believe people used to act like that. Besides, there just aren't enough people around to have all those mythical wars."
Patiently, Mark continued. "I'm telling you, Jennette, this is more than theory. There are still some records left from those days."
"Prove it."
"All right. That's not hard. Somebody had to build the factories, didn't they? And the Decanting Centers?"
"Robots."
"Who built the first robot factory?"
Jennette considered. Then she shrugged petulantly. "Oh all right. Maybe a few people did cooperate. But not hundreds of them. People just don't act like that."