RE: thinking about the unthinkable

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 02:11:28 MDT

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    At 12:29 AM 7/30/03 -0700, you wrote:

    >> 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).

    Your subtlety or opacity eludes me.

    Damien Broderick

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