(urth) Inhumi secret

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Perhaps the Neighbors were somewhat better at it than we would be. They did after all gather enough "political will" to leave Blue and Green entirely. I don't see humans doing even that much.


Or perhaps Krait has a more developed imagination, and a better grasp of ethics, than we assume---fully human, in other words, and not dependent on linear stimulus-response thinking.




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> From: Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:33 AM
>Subject: (urth) Inhumi secret
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>Lee Berman wrote:
>
>>>nate jarvis: If everyone on Earth stops having sex or doing needle drugs for what?
>>>a year? then we all go and get AIDS tests, then AIDS is cured.
>>>THAT sounds more likely than everyone being nice to one another to
>>>wipe out vampire-like monsters they'd rather lynch.
>>>Horn seems to to feel if he revealed the secret it would spell trouble
>>>for the inhumi as well.
>>
>> My own thinking is in line with nates, but I have to admit that Jerry's thinking
>> is congruent with Wolfe's quote in the Gevers interview. Perhaps we are just
>> supposed to accept it at face value. (urg..but I just...can't...do....that)
>
>We should bear in mind, though, that the Rajan himself is very
>doubtful about whether the secret is really useful. "If you will, it
>is a great and terrible weapon. That is how the inhumi themselves see
>it, and I will not call them wrong. But it is a weapon too heavy for
>our hands."
>
>This does of course raise the question why the inhumi themselves feel
>threatened by it.  Did they ever meet a people who were able to use
>it? Certainly not the Neighbours, who were also overwhelmed by them.
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