“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.”
I think that Serling is saying that problems that evolve in the world are not always because of what someone decided to do by useing something. He is saying that sometimes people destroy eachother with thoghts or words. Not just a weapon, in the movie the block was destroyed by what people thought in their minds. Sometimes the mind can be the most destructive tool to use. If someone says something bad to another person just for amusement not literal thoughts you dont know what that person will think your saying. That could destroy his feelings and he will start a war with you. That is what happened with the problem on Maple Street, each person believed something wrong. They called eachother a monster that doesnt live on Earth. But in the end no one was a "Monster" they all just thought it becasue prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. In the end he says "search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.” i think he means that if people keep on using their thoughts, attitudes as weapons it could affect what the world is going to be like for children and children unborn. That is why i agree with him, if we keep on doing this it will blow up like bombsand there could be a big explosion.
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