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She thought of the multitude. Trillions of human beings, wrappend like a fog about their home star. The mind collapsed at the scale and the numbers. … - Adam Roberts
" "She thought of the multitude.
Trillions of human beings, wrappend like a fog about their home star. The mind collapsed at the scale and the numbers. But if ethics meant anything at all, it meant not letting the largeness of the human population overwhelm our moral knowledge that life is lived individually, and that even when agglomerated into billions and trillions individual human beings deserve better han being used as tools. That the overwhelming majority of this vast mass of humanity was poor, living precariously and subsistence lives in leaky shanty bubbles, eating ghunk and drinking recycled water—this made this more, not less, true. These were the people least able to help themselves. Thery should be helped, not exploited.
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About Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist.
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A.R.R.R. Roberts
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A. R. R. R. Roberts
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A3R Roberts
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Robertski Brothers
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Don Brine
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Adam Charles Roberts
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