From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 00:17:45 MDT
At 10:38 PM 7/29/03 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
>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? (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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