Any type of violence initiated by one intelligent being against another was wrong. Killing violence was worse than any other kind. How could it be co… - Steve Perry

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Any type of violence initiated by one intelligent being against another was wrong. Killing violence was worse than any other kind. How could it be condoned? In his brief moment of cosmic bliss, Khadaji had seen the value of intelligent life. Man and his self-created mues were alone in the galaxy as evolved intelligence. Certainly, there were artificials—computers and genetically altered animals—but no aliens had been discovered above the level of an unaltered dog. It was a big galaxy, plenty of room for every human or neo-human, it wasn’t necessary to kill any of them!

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Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is an American television writer and science fiction author.

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“You cheated!”
“Hell yes, I did. I learned a long time ago, better you learn to fight smarter, not harder.”
“If you had not had the pistol—”
“Then I’d have used some other tool. Knife, stick, a chair, whatever. Fighting fair gets you killed unless the other guy also fights fair and you are better than him and lucky. First rule: Don’t do it.

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