Title: The Last Castle
Author(s): Jack Vance
Publisher(s): Tor Books
Pages: 97
Year: 1989
Format: LIT
Language: English
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Xanten made an airy gesture. A. G. Philidor, you over-
simplify grievously. Do you consider me obtuse? There are
many kmds of history. They interact. You emphasize moral-
ity. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What
promotes survival is good, what induces mortefaction is bad.
Well spoken! declared Philidor. But let me propound a
parable. May a nation of a million beings destroy a creature
who otherwise will infect all with a fatal disease? Yes, you
will say. Once more. Ten starving beasts hunt you, that they
may eat. Will you kill them to save your life? Yes, you will
say again, though here you destroy more than you save. Once
more: a man inhabits a hut in a lonely valley. A hundred
spaceships descend from the sky, and attempt to destroy him.
May he destroy these ships in self-defense, even though he is
one and they are a hundred thousand? Perhaps you say yes.
What then if a whole world, a whole race of beings, pits itself
against this single man? May he kill all? What if the attackers
are as human as himself? What if he were the creature of the
first instance, who otherwise will infect a world with disease?
You see, there is no area where a simple touchstone avails.
We have searched and found none. Hence, at the risk of
sinning against Survival, we1, at least; I can only speak for
myselfhave chosen a morality that at least allows me calm.
I killnothing. I destroy nothing.
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