[kia252]

That all seems mighty absolutist.

The best answer I could say is that man is final authority on his own behavior, and by extension of my argument, the behavior of the government he establishes for himself. There are consequences should man fail to check his behavior, and man has nothing else to blame should he earn those consequences. The fire is his own doing, for man is the check on himself and the government he creates.

I suppose I decided on the qualifier of "if properly done" to allow the ground that some men are not so just, and that there must always be due vigilance that they not undermine the efforts of man to secure its own rights.

Fire can also be harnessed just as much as a great creative force as a destructive one.