Spaceship Earth

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Spaceship Earth:

"Vehicle moving at 60,000 miles an hour through the heavens and you're aboard as a passenger. I'm sorry but your objection is invalid.

So decreed Justice Fuller. I tried a different angle having, apparently, failed to make myself understood: "There's an organization just formed in San Francisco called Living Creatures Associates. It's a press agency claiming to represent other species-- whales, garter snakes, foxes-- represent them publicly on their own terms, with a right to exist on this spaceship, then, in the same way as I do. With some rights that conflict, perhaps, with those of men."

"Did the foxes invite them? Did the daisies elect them?... I have no objection to other people's doing what they do but nothing could be more remote from me," says Fuller. "I call this a do-gooder organization, idealistic and so forth. And their effectiveness approximately zero.. I think it is a very nice manifest of consciousness of man. He's beginning to think about things."

"The idea is that.. we must accept the rights of other beings."

Citations

Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.159, Feb'73

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