RE: thinking about the unthinkable

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 20:31:59 MDT

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    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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