Ability is God-given, prowess is earned.
People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.