From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 20:31:59 MDT
At 12:10 PM 7/30/03 -0400, Paul Grant wrote:
>Gentlemen; its a book. You can't use Orson Scott Cards
>fictional characters as a basis for sound judgements as they
>regard to genocide....
Of course, and Mr Card is a practising Mormon, so the supernaturalist and
frankly ridiculously bogus foundation of his ethics puts his thought
experiments into question anyway. But if the narrative *is* going to be
used as the basis of a thought experiment, we should at least stick to what
Card wrote rather than reversing its meaning.
Damien Broderick
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