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If two people are intent upon communicating with one another it doesn’t matter in the least how bewildering the talk becomes. When the latter are inoperative speech becomes dead. “Talk is only a pretext for other, subtler forms of communication. ― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pathfinder

It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community." "The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. "You didn't think about it at all," said the expendable. And if you really thought we would colonize this world without making it 'ours', you'd be far too naive to command this expedition." The three continental preserves will be sufficient to allow biologists to study alien life at some point in the future. We would inevitably contaminate Garden, or worse yet, become contaminated and bring potentially deadly Gardenian life forms back to Earth. "Visiting here as students of an alien evolutionary tradition would not be either cost-effective or, ultimately, successful. "But this is not our world, to treat however we want!" Ruthlessness was necessary but wins no votes." "It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of the colonization program. “I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless."