Team America and Science Fiction

A quote from Team America at Samizdata reminded me of the following quote from The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz:

For the large class of non-aggressive citizens who'd prefer simply to be allowed to go about their business and keep out of trouble, that's a non-optimum situation. They're presented with many unpleasant problems they don't want, are endangered and occasionally harrassed or destroyed by human predators. But in the long run the problems never really seem to get out of hand. Because we also have highly aggressive antipredators. Typically, they don't prey on the harmless citizen. But their hackles go up when they meet their mirror image, the predator—from whom they can be distinguished mainly by their goals. When there are no official restraints on them, they appear to be as a class more than a match for the predators. … There are shadings and variations to all this, of course. The harmless citizen, the predator and the antipredator are ideal concepts. …