Individual advancement, so long as that advancement does not cause another individual to be deprived of basic necessities, is the highest goal of the Spacer worlds.
[Vasilia is not so much defensive as pre-emptively hostile. Her paranoia tells her that everyone must and will disagree and attack her and she addresses them, unconsciously, accordingly.]
It is the spoken and unspoken moral center of us. We will co-operate in our research when the need is dire, and no one of us would allow a fellow Spacer to starve, as it is the surplus of resources that allows our society to thrive, and that infrastructure that we will co-operate to maintain. The fourth principal of this planet you mention, compassion, can surely be understood as 'enlightened self interest', and yet I hear such sentimentality attached to it!
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:38 am (UTC)[Vasilia is not so much defensive as pre-emptively hostile. Her paranoia tells her that everyone must and will disagree and attack her and she addresses them, unconsciously, accordingly.]
It is the spoken and unspoken moral center of us. We will co-operate in our research when the need is dire, and no one of us would allow a fellow Spacer to starve, as it is the surplus of resources that allows our society to thrive, and that infrastructure that we will co-operate to maintain. The fourth principal of this planet you mention, compassion, can surely be understood as 'enlightened self interest', and yet I hear such sentimentality attached to it!