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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (7815)	3/7/2001 1:04:38 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Perhaps so. Unless they recognized that abortion was a minimize harm issue. I'm sticking to my plan...

To: Lane3 who wrote (7815)	3/7/2001 6:37:55 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, perhaps. My case is that sentient creatures are hopfully less likely to eat others whom they recognise as sentient - meaning able to recognise abstract possible futures and communicate their reactions to those possibilities without acting from pure reflex to potential predation. The equivalent to the abortion argument surely is that the aliens shouldn't eat anything living, because with sufficient time it should one day develop (evolve) into something independently sentient. That is, equating the potential for humanity with the actuality. Maybe the aliens would have an infallible, non-invasive method of birth control which didn't involve abstinence?