(urth) Re: Crush on trial

[maru]

Matt Tillman wrote:

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> Tony Ellis wrote:
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>>In the post you're quoting from, the question was whether the mere
>>preservation of future generations could be used to justify Severian's
>>mass-murder *at all*. To which the answer is still "No".
>>
>>In the wider context, I don't see why the ability of the Urth to
>>produce, or not to produce, a certain number of humans, should be the
>>'essential' question.
>>
>>'Why did so many innocents have to be sacrificed in the first place?'
>>seems a more important question to me.
>>  
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> A question worth asking is whether the population was considered 
> innocent.  Not by us mind you, but by the Increate.  Remember that the 
> antedeluvian world was not innocent, and the best solution at the time 
> was a cleansing of the global palate.  Much the same can be said of 
> Sodom and Gomorrah, where, even today debate rages over the sin that 
> was grounds for their destruction.  Even in this case, the sin is 
> irrelevant to humanity, it was a sin in the eyes of God.

In other words, is the flood of Noah the right analogy?

~Maru