RE: thinking about the unthinkable

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 01:29:36 MDT

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    Damien writes

    > >You sound as though *all* genocidal actions can be, or ought
    > >to be dismissed, out of hand. Have you read "Ender's Game"?
    >
    > Did you get as far as the end, where the appalling error resulting in this
    > tragedy was made clear?

    What error was this?

    Lee

    > (That error, emblematic of certain discussions on
    > this topic, was firstly to overstate the supposed threat, and secondly to
    > allow a clever child to murder almost all the members of an entire
    > conscious species while playing what he regarded as a game).
    >
    > Did you read the sequels, where the sorrowing Ender took as his vastly
    > extended life's contrition the recovery of that murdered species, and the
    > personal, detailed expression of grief at the individual deaths of ordinary
    > humans, as a `Speaker for the Dead'?
    >
    > Damien Broderick



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