• BobKerman3999@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    I hated the central plot point of the second book and I really don’t understand how in the fuck they could keep it around instead of killing it with nuclear fire forever

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      1 year ago

      Even if you ignore its inherent worth (and a major theme of the books is the inherent worth of things that don’t look or think like you), it was still an amazing discovery with incredible potential. IMO it was less dangerous that the (admittedly much less innately terrifying) sympathetic aliens, who were capable of deep space travel, unpredictable, warlike, and also very difficult to communicate with.

      (I was actually asking the opposite question by the end of the book - once it was convinced to play nice, why wasn’t everyone signing up for it?)

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        1 year ago

        That is the question of the self and I’m against whatever just like I’m against teleportation like star trek