Crush on trial

maru · 05 Apr 2005, 17:27 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Tue Apr  5 17:27:37 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: Crush on trial
In-Reply-To: <42532B68.8000404 at verizon.net>
References: <000001c53790$89b5f9b0$6401a8c0@TONYSPC>
	<42532B68.8000404 at verizon.net>
Message-ID: <42532C36.1050309 at gmail.com>

Matt Tillman wrote:

>
>
> Tony Ellis wrote:
>
>>In the post you're quoting from, the question was whether the mere
>>preservation of future generations could be used to justify Severian's
>>mass-murder *at all*. To which the answer is still "No".
>>
>>In the wider context, I don't see why the ability of the Urth to
>>produce, or not to produce, a certain number of humans, should be the
>>'essential' question.
>>
>>'Why did so many innocents have to be sacrificed in the first place?'
>>seems a more important question to me.
>>  
>>
> A question worth asking is whether the population was considered 
> innocent.  Not by us mind you, but by the Increate.  Remember that the 
> antedeluvian world was not innocent, and the best solution at the time 
> was a cleansing of the global palate.  Much the same can be said of 
> Sodom and Gomorrah, where, even today debate rages over the sin that 
> was grounds for their destruction.  Even in this case, the sin is 
> irrelevant to humanity, it was a sin in the eyes of God.

In other words, is the flood of Noah the right analogy?

~Maru

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net