King Prout: Thank you very much for the outstanding PING. What a great article for tonite!
(I'm going to refrain from posting on FR until after the election. I think it's best to be out of the way when the furniture is flying.)
This is a great article and I think it hints around a couple of issues that bear more discussion: (1) radical socialism as less a political point of view than as religion, and, (2)the ends-justify-the-means ethics.
I wonder if Mr. Card has read the writings of Saul Alinsky? That's the basis for a lot of this kind of "ethical" thinking. I suspect that he has.
It would not surprise me if he has.
Uncle Orson specializes in presenting tales of interacting moral dilemmas masqueraded as sci-fi or horror fiction.
an adept writer.
go to www.hatrackriver.com and see if it is to your tastes.