I problemi della guerra e le vie della pace (The problems of war and the ways of peace) is a university booklet of philosopher Norberto Bobbio

Norberto Bobbio

Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa....

's lessons. The lessons are famous for the three images that illustrate the conditions of humans in the era of thermonuclear weapons

Nuclear proliferation

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1. An open bottle with a fly flying in it;
2. The net with a fish still alive in it;
3. The maze from which a person tries to escape.

Some people behave like the fly because one day at random they will find the way out. Some behave like the trapped fish: the more they move the more they are entangled. Others behave like those lost in a maze: they try to escape using the faculties of mind.