# Ask the guy who is pretty good at SF Story Identification **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417 "2008-09-07T00:08:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1735
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417/1735 "2025-06-02T01:39:23Z")
I think you’ve asked this before… > [@ID a short story please?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-short-story-please/613356): > > Probably at least twenty years ago I read a short story in which people had become way too divided over ethnic/gender/social/orientation issues. It got to the point where civil war started over left or right handedness, or the color of your eyes. People couldn’t band together at all because they weren’t just alike. At the end of the story two tired survivors are ready to give up the struggle, when they are confronted by a woman who gives them little self immolation kits, reminding them “We ha… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417)._