When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
("Speaker for the Dead")
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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