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