Upvoted for bringing the Langford story to my attention; I was not aware of it.
I continue to believe my explanation accurately describes the approach of a significant proportion of highly educated individuals expressing anti-racial differences views, whether or not those individuals are even aware of the general concept of mindkilling.
There’s a similar plotline in one of the Star Trek episodes with the Borg, where (IIRC) they discuss the morality of crashing all the Borg’s minds with some bug they’ve found in their information processing, decide not to, and then discover they already sort of did that by accident....
Upvoted for bringing the Langford story to my attention; I was not aware of it.
I continue to believe my explanation accurately describes the approach of a significant proportion of highly educated individuals expressing anti-racial differences views, whether or not those individuals are even aware of the general concept of mindkilling.
This story: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm ?
There’s a similar plotline in one of the Star Trek episodes with the Borg, where (IIRC) they discuss the morality of crashing all the Borg’s minds with some bug they’ve found in their information processing, decide not to, and then discover they already sort of did that by accident....
That’s the one I had in mind, yes.