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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: What an advanced race would come far to get : slaves
Message-ID: <15465@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:49:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:49:45 1985
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

You bet they would come for slaves.  Just because we think we are advanced
morally past the desire for slaves, doesn't mean other races would follow
the same track.

Highly advanced technology can do much, but it never replaces personal
service.  (Of course, if you can make an android with a turing-test AI program
then there is an argument that this is a living being and should not be
enslaved, too)

At any rate, until you have perfect AI, nothing can match a slave as the
ultimate luxury.   And with a cousin race they can even be used for sexual
purposes.  Slaves are cheap - they can produce enough to feed and house themselves
and you can take all the rewards.  Yes, they would come for slaves.

As for water, no chance.  Even if your own planet were somehow to "dry out",
water is very common.  If not, hydrogen is the most common and oxygen is
plentiful too.

And if you did have to leave your star system, you wouldn't come to Earth
to drag up the liquid water from the bottom of a gravity well.  There
are whole asteroids and planetoids made of ice out there that you could
easily steal.  Why risk war to take it from Earth?

-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304