On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:26:15 -0700 Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net writes:

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But then, I'm strongly against casual abortion.

Ellynne, I have never met anyone who was in favor of it.

Unfortunately, I have.

Aagh. I am getting more political on this than I care to be. First, I don't think Meegat was left to die although I do think the Liberator should have made some effort to get her and her people off if the environment was bad for them. I have mixed feelings about whether they tried or whether Meegat and her people would come (also, I wonder what Avon's line implying Meegat no longer thought of him as a god meant. Maybe he did mess up the whole divinity image by offering her a chance off the planet that violated her personal mythos?).

However, this is the one area in which I can really see some grounds to complain about Deliverance. The writer seems to prioritize the gene banks of potential lives ahead of Meeghat who is alive right now.

I've possibly got an overly developed protective attitude toward little kids in general and a reasonably strong sense of abstract duty to people who may not be alive anymore/yet (I had a class once where I argued my point on The American for several minutes before realizing none of the other people in class understood my underlying premise - what moral obligations Newman had to a dead man he'd never met [well, I _thought_ it was common cultural baggage]).

I just know that, if someone gave me a chance to save my species and people, I'd probably take it. I hope that, even if it was at the cost of my own life, I'd still take it.

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