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Re: [Plug] At the risk of getting flamed to my dying day, I'm going to posea question...
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The best response I can make about this is from Orson Scott Card's
Xenocide...
<The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and
females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave
each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and
females are completely different species with completely different
needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce.>
<Of course you feel that way. Your mates are nothing but mindless
drones, extensions of yourself, without their own identity.>
<We know our lovers with perfect understanding. Humans invent an
imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their
bed.>
<That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other
only through symbolic representation are forced to imagine each
other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often
wrong.>
<That is the source of their misery.>
<And some of their strength, I think. Your people and mine, each for
our own evolutionary reasons, mate with vastly unequal partners. Our
mates are alway, hopelessly, our intellectual inferiors. Humans mate
with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between
mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but
because they commune with each other at all.>
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