Wasn't it the duty of the strong to help the weak? The duty of the adult to guide the child? Was it not proper to help those who were in trouble?
When the Shepherds had started picking up EM broadcasts they'd seen a society that couldn't decide on much of anything. Some of it made no sense whatsoever as they didn't understand the concept of slapstick at all. When they got to "I Love Lucy" all they saw was some poor girl going through incredible lapses of judgement and resulting hardship.
Even so, they'd parked off in the Kuiper Belt with a surveillance ship and translated and analyzed what they could of these humans through their broadcasts.
What was seen was that these humans were a truly mixed bag. Some brilliant examples, some idiocy, some soaring art, some things that made less and less sense. They'd also seen a world where the inhabitants seemed to be getting more conflicting as time went on.
No, this shouldn't be allowed. But would they do more harm by intervening or by not? Was this race capable of becoming more than heavily armed children locked in pure pleasure-response cycles?
Hence the test.
"Ranmasaotome" and "harrypotter" were representitives of two major areas within the socioecopolitical mix of the Earthers. The third of three contestants should reflect a third set.
That they weren't considering female candidates was based in part of the fact that in their own species - the female was more docile and less intelligent than the male, and therefore not suitable for being a planetary representitive. The other major consideration was based entirely on the representation of these females on those broadcasts. Half seemed to be either perpetually hostile or made very little sense to the logic-based Shepherds. Their own society was somewhat Bedouin but based on a religion where logic and calm rational thought were extolled as virtues. How one felt on a subject was emotion based and therefore not applicable unless the feeling was based on hard fact and reasoning.
They didn't understand talk shows at all, except that these Earthers were clearly fond of irrationality. Itself a sign of species immaturity.
After searching long and hard, the collective decision came down to choose:
(Posted Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:54)
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