Crush on trial

maru · 01 Apr 2005, 19:10 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Fri Apr  1 19:10:13 2005
Subject: (urth) Re:  Crush on trial
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Tony Ellis wrote:

>I wrote:
>  
>
>>And what about all the generations who *will* be born on Urth if the
>>New Sun doesn't come? Not to mention all those born on all the other
>>worlds to which humanity is transplanted after Urth dies. Don't they 
>>count?
>>    
>>
>
>Crush countered:
>  
>
>>Who's to say humanity would have been transplanted?
>>    
>>
>
>
>Master Ashe says.
>
>"At this time, many of your people are already gone," Master Ashe
>continued. "Those you call the cagogens have mercifully carried them to
>fairer worlds. Many more will leave before the final victory of the ice.
>I am myself, you see, descended from those refugees." TCOTA. Chapter
>XVII 
>
>Humanity does not die if Severian fails to bring the New Sun. It is
>taken to better worlds, where it continues. 
>
>Severian’s murder of millions can’t be said to preserve any more unborn
>generations than Ozymandias’ murder of thousands.
>  
>
The essential question is whether the Urth being able to continue 
supporting life will probably
produce more human life than the cost of making it so capable. With an 
open-ended universe, that
can almost be guaranteed.

~Maru

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