The answer is monster, as the text itself even compares it to a monster.
"The USS Alabama, built in 1942, is a monster weighing in at 35,000 tons."
Answer:
Humans are better suited for making art than making war
Explanation:
The author compares the beauty of what man can create - 'musics that matches the birds', 'laugher that matches the dogs', 'understanding more intricate than a spiders web' and contrasts it to the horrors of war 'breaking open breasts', etc.