From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 03:39:43 MDT
"den Otter" <neosapient@geocities.com> writes:
> > From: Michael S. Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com>
> > QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > It's the Star Belly Sneech story.
> >
> > One of my favorites. To me it illustrated how stupid the whole race/difference
> > thing is...
>
> Actually, it's stories like this that are stupid; they support the myth that
> the whole "race/difference thing" is just a matter of some irrelevant
> exterior features
I don't know about Dr Seuss (BTW, thanks everybody for explaining the
reference to me), but in my story (if Dr Zuckermann was right) there
were real differences. But technology can make these differences
irrelevant or even useful. Then of course we can start arguing about
how large the differences are in real life and if they are truly
relevant compared to other factors; I leave that for another time.
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