From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 16:33:44 MST
Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> > Yes, anyone who has read either uplift trilogy will see how he blithely
> > accepts ideas of government enforced eugenics programs applied to all
> > members of a species, should see how he is no libertarian, although he
> > did redeem a bit in the second trilogy (Brightness Reef, Infinity's
> > Shore, Heaven's Reach) by depicting a society of 'sooners' of several
> > species illegally colonizing a fallow world, and sympathized with the
> > view of a more anarchical society and against dogma, fascism, and force.
> > He is smarmily two faced about things, and is right to understand that
> > 'wishywashy' individuals like himself are no good.
>
> I still don't see what's wrong with presenting and supporting two different
> sides of an issue and being able to either empathize with or oppose both. I
> think that's a sign of a flexible mind and a skilled artist- not being "two
> faced" (which we all are, whether we admit it or not).
Sitting on the fence does little but give you splinters in your ass, and
make you a sniper target for both sides. A flexible mind posesses the
ability to make up one's mind at some point, preferably before the end
of time. A notorious fence sitter is as rigid of mind about refusing to
decide as any partisan is about decisions made.
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