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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (79624)	9/15/2011 4:50:52 AM
From: elmatador	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218862

Chinese came to Europe "To Serve man" "The behavior of the Chinese government in the euro crisis has become a whole lot more confident," said Sandschneider. "This is the new reality with which Europe and America must deal with constructively." It reminds me of "To Serve man" The title is a double entendre, meaning (of serve) either "to perform a service for humanity" or "to serve a human as food." The story is set in what appears to be the present time (i.e., 1950), in cold war America, and is told in first-person narrative by a United Nations translator. The story opens at a special session of the UN where three alien emissaries, the pig-like "Kanamit," are testifying that the purpose of their mission to Earth is "to bring to you the peace and plenty which we ourselves enjoy, and which we have in the past brought to other races throughout the galaxy." The aliens soon supply Earth with cheap unlimited power, a device that suppresses explosions, and drugs for prolonging life. As a further token of friendship, they allow humans to visit their home planet via ten-year "exchange groups." A friend of the narrator, a UN translator named Gregori, steals one of the Kanamit books, and he and the narrator attempt to translate it, via a basic Kanamit-English dictionary provided by the aliens. After some weeks, they determine that the title is "To Serve Man." Two weeks later, the narrator returns from a trip to find Gregori distraught. Gregori says that he has translated the first paragraph of the book: "It's a cookbook," he said.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (79624)	9/15/2011 8:20:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218862

Of course current citizens get one. They own the place already. They would just formalize and individualize their ownership. All existing citizens would get one. People who don't exist would have to inherit, be gifted, or buy. Children already born would get one when they turn 25. No breeding to get more. Somebody born later has to inherit one or buy or and otherwise is a second class person. This is like the good old days when there were Lords of the Manor, landed gentry and serfs who had to survive by working for the citizenry. That is a big problem when breeding is continuing apace as eventually the mob just has a revolution and there's a huge civil war and the system gets redone like Mao's Maelstrom when the state simply confiscates everything. But with modern people, birthrates are low with populations actually falling, so that problem goes away. There would be some serious constitutional issues to be dealt with as people are like monkeys and don't obey rules very well if at all. The non-citizens would be doing the tax paying. The citizens would do the voting and collect the dividends of citizenship. Foreign workers would do the work and pay the taxes. The citizens would not vote for the useless politicians who are now in existence. That's not far off how it works now. Foreign workers don't get a vote but pay the taxes [like our daughter and her husband in London, England]. Same as us in Canada, Belgium, England. Same as son in Japan. We can't have children as "anchor babies" and take over. But we used to be able to so the family owns Canada [one member does and we [the parents] are entitled to live there but are not citizens, yet]. The big difference is being able to sell the citizenship. That's the fundamental property right which is missing. In most other respects of the modern world, individual property rights have become normal. Mqurice