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David Stockhoff · 28 Nov 2012, 02:46 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:46:50 -0500
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On 11/27/2012 9:06 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> From: nate jarvis natejarv at gmail.com
>> I've been wondering if the inhumi's secret isn't that, if once given
>> consent to drink from a human, they then require consent to drink from
>> a human. It's the only thing I've thought of thus far that seems to
>> offer a practical threat to the inhumi if revealed, but when I read
>> BotSS it felt like and _old_ secret, so unless it's something they
>> discovered from interactions with the Neighbors than it wouldn't
>> satisfy in that regard.
>   
> As far as I can tell, Wolfe's answer does offer a practical threat to
> the inhumi.  If the people on Blue and Green were non-parasitic, the
> inhumi couldn't parasitize them, and if the people were honest, the
> inhumi would be honest and couldn't deceive them.  Then inhumi
> preying on people would stop, and the next generation would have
> only animal intelligence, at which point people could wipe them out
> (or keep a few in parks and zoos).

On the other hand, is that really a threat to them? We already know that 
violence and addiction etc. harm us. Inhumi would hardly threaten us 
enough that we'd see such an advantage to wiping them out that we would 
stop being dishonest for even as long as it took to destroy the 
motherships in Independence Day. We're just a dishonest species. So I'd 
call it more of a theoretical threat.

Still, it's something they'd want to keep a secret.

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