What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 11 Jul 2008, 01:11 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:09 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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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.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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