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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (5671)2/13/2001 8:34:28 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" Robert A Heinlein

I like science fiction--the kind about other paradigms, not the space cowboys type. One of the first sci fi books I ever read was about a society on the moon that developed after it had been used as a penal colony, much like Australia. That society had a different concept of marriage and family. When you were of age, you married into a family where you had multiple husbands and wives. Children were raised communally until they left to marry into another family. I remember finding that interesting and I don't dismiss that system out of hand. In that place and time, another paradigm of morality could make perfect sense. There's not just one absolute morality handed down from on high, IMO.
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