The very real winner:

The internalized misconcept that peace is an illusion, an impossible dream and War & Evil are and will forever remain embedded in the human nature.

How To:

Identify a potential enemy, feed him with your Industry's weaponry until the Golem Raises to the high status of Enemy, and then use all your might to destroy him in punishment so that the furnace of the Weapons Industry stays busy and so enables a multitude of Jobs resulting in a good livelihood."

The honorable Rev Hick was so generous as to read in my humble prose, A Poem. I swear it's not. Hopefully it's just lucid prose.

Yet in his own comment to my said "poem" Rev Hick is quoting a most verbally
not quite benevolent quotation by somebody from a different era: John Stewart Mill.

John Stuart Mill, unlike us, was a British philosopher who lived not only ages ago (1806-1873) but in a quite (hopefully) different era.

His livelihood was enabled by a job under his father in the India Office.

I would like to ask Rev Hick for the date of his quotation. John Stuart Mill thinking has changed a bit over the years.

He had no childhood. His father taught him at home and kept him away from children his age.

As he himself has mentioned, his "emotional life was neglected" and in his early twenties he was given to "youthful fanaticism".

Later on he felt that "a constant habit of analysis had drained up the fountains of feeling within" him.

Further on the guy establishes the theory of Utilitarianism which he summarises as the quest for happiness, yet not on the expense of his fellowmen/women.
(as long as they are British).

As King Salomon is still saying, there comes the age of wisdom. It's traces we find in JS Mills's very last words/essay:

Essays on Religion, Chapter Three, On Theism.

I will tell you what he wrote there only after you'll read Rev Hick's quotation, that prompted me to go seek a bit further:

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill

And this is what wrote a much wiser John Stuart Mill in the last years of his life:

"... nor, even now, would it be even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete than the endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life."