<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>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. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>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.<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53@googlemail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> urth@lists.urth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:33 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> (urth) Inhumi secret<br> </font> </div> <br>Lee Berman wrote:<br><br>>>nate jarvis: If everyone on Earth stops having sex or doing needle drugs for what?<br>>>a year? then we all go and get AIDS tests, then AIDS is cured.<br>>>THAT sounds more likely than everyone being nice to one another to<br>>>wipe out vampire-like monsters they'd rather lynch.<br>>>Horn
seems to to feel if he revealed the secret it would spell trouble<br>>>for the inhumi as well.<br>><br>> My own thinking is in line with nates, but I have to admit that Jerry's thinking<br>> is congruent with Wolfe's quote in the Gevers interview. Perhaps we are just<br>> supposed to accept it at face value. (urg..but I just...can't...do....that)<br><br>We should bear in mind, though, that the Rajan himself is very<br>doubtful about whether the secret is really useful. "If you will, it<br>is a great and terrible weapon. That is how the inhumi themselves see<br>it, and I will not call them wrong. But it is a weapon too heavy for<br>our hands."<br><br>This does of course raise the question why the inhumi themselves feel<br>threatened by it. Did they ever meet a people who were able to use<br>it? Certainly not the Neighbours, who were also overwhelmed by them.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing
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