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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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11/20/2011 10:00 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > You’re missing the
point. If they were trying to help him, they didn’t <BR>> > do a very good
job of it, but that’s consistent with them doing as <BR>> > much as they
could (the astral projection device). But if they were <BR>> > sending one
of their own to replace him, they did a really terrible <BR>> > job
insofar as after the replacement he was still stuck in the pit – <BR>> >
that requires an astounding degree of impulsiveness and irrationality! <BR>>
> And finally if they intended to replace him and offer Krait his family
<BR>> > to get him out, that makes them downright non-benevolent, and
doesn’t <BR>> > work with the whole storyline.<BR>> > Only the first
option is really tenable.<BR><BR>> I agree. You're missing your own point.
Fairies are notoriously amoral <BR>> and, as you say, limited in their
powers. Why expect the Neighbors to be <BR>> perfectly moral and powerful?
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but the Increate are limited in their powers. If you want to argue that
the Neighbours are subject to mad impulses, maybe you could say that makes them
like fairies also. On the other hand, fairies don’t usually have high tech
space-faring civilisations (which also reads against super-impulsiveness), and
are not usually preyed upon by vampires. And the Neighbours *do* in fact
seem to have a strong moral sense even though it certainly does not make them
paragons who never do evil. In some ways, the Neighbours are quite unlike
fairies, even if they resemble them in others.</DIV></DIV>
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there are some Faerie-like elements in their make-up, I do not think they are
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