From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Vulcan Racism Vs. IDIC?   
      
   "Quadibloc"  wrote in message    
   news:2707553a-009c-4db6-8d14-e1edd7ffa002@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > Unfortunately, there _is_ a disturbing note in Star Trek of preference   
   > for a system of ethics which contains disturbing parallels with that   
   > of Nazism to the ethical system of our society, as derived from   
   > Christianity, which constrains people to give precedence to the   
   > immediate and direct consequences of their actions to other   
   > individuals over possible long-range global considerations.   
      
   Roddenberry was an atheist, remember?   
      
   We're seeing that in the debate over global warming:  Let's all    
   voluntarily agree to take a permanent cut in the global domestic    
   product, even though that might mean starvation for millions of    
   humans--because we gotta save Mother Earth and all them animals.   
      
      
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