OT- Anyone read Old man's war?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Let's look at this logically.

I have no desire to eat an alien. No sane human being has a desire to eat an alien.

Human beings are aliens. Just ask any alien.

Therefore, why the dealing with aliens as if they are raving menaces?

Because human brains can only deal with so many people. The more people we have to deal with, the less data storage we have to define them.

So, our family has pages and pages of data. Our friends, also pages.

That jerk who cut us off in traffic? One line, and you just read it.

So of course we yell at him. Everything we know about him says that he's an idiot...And he's not as 'real' to us as people we actually know. At best, he's a blurred face and a vehicle.

This is also the basis of racism. Iraqis. Iranians. Blacks. Jews. Whites. The farther people are away from us, the easier it is to catogorize them as 'them'.

And, of course, aliens aren't real people. After all, real people...Are just like us.

Fortunatly, we have the ability to be better than our 'natural man'.

For one thing, we can expand our definition of 'people'.