> > If we ever do come across any highly advanced civilisations, you can bet
> > your bottom dollar they will be capitalistic, trader civilisations.
>
> Does the Squirrel understand correctly, that an unaugmented biological
> unit, scarcely two million years past its culture's invention of the
> stone axe, is unwilling to consider that intelligent beings may have
> thought of something that it did not think of, has not thought of, or
> perhaps cannot think of?
Yes. Either there is coersion or there is not. It's binary. A third
alternative is not possible, regardless of how intelligent the being is.
Robert Schrader rms@cts.com