Talk:The Stars My Destination

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I removed the following paragraph because: A. it shows a highly dubious grasp of ethics B. the author has substituted his own culture for "today's society" All this talk of "themes" and "setting" makes the last section look suspiciously like someone's book report...

The setting in the book is a time that is very different from the world we live in today. Sometime in the near future Earth and its outer systems abolish organized religion. This has a huge effect on mankind. It seems to abolish humans' technique of ethical questioning. With the jaunteing experiments, they take on human suicide testers. 80% die in the testing phase. This is something that would never be allowed to happen in today's society because people will question whether it is ethical or not. This is because many ethical questions are based on one's religion. They also have what's called "the freak factory" which is experiments led by a Doctor Baker who creates mermaids and other mythical creatures with willing human beings. In today's society this would have serious ethical questioning.

you should leave your name along with your comment.. :) Sunburst 2005 July 7 14:05 (UTC)

hate to burst your bubble, but recent research shows that the sense of morality and one's religious beliefs or non-beliefs have very little in common. faced with a moral dillema, such as for instance: "you see a kid drowning. jumping into the water to save it would require that you destroy your suit, which you just purchased recently. what do you do?", almost all of the interwievees respond in a similar fashion, regardless of whether they are religious or not. personaly, i find it distasteful that some people with religious beliefs try to hog morality. 213.172.246.24 15:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)