(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Jul 10 18:11:09 PDT 2008


Paul B wrote:
> I don't understand the difficulty in holding a race of aliens, even an 
> advanced race, to a moral standard.

The difficulty is in agreeing on the units of moral judgment. A 
Hierogrammate may be a race unto themselves and destroy an intelligent 
individual whose actions they disklike the way you or I destroy itchy 
nerve fibers by scratching ourselves or remove warts from each other's 
bodies.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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