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Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants?

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants?
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Date 2016-10-03 13:20 +0000
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In article <b1026922-f52d-4c06-8c6c-1d698ed11c71@googlegroups.com>,
Madawc Williams  <madawcnow@gmail.com> wrote:
>He says this in "Out of the Silent Planet", published 1938. Two human
>visitors to Mars seem to intend something like the European colonisation
>of the rest of the world. The third, whom we are obviously supposed to
>agree with, condemns it.

Well, the first example of *that* idea that I know of is Wells's
_The War of the Worlds._  Wells was an avowed Socialist and
_TWotW_ was a way of saying, "Hey, Britain, how would you feel if
it happened to *you*?"

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Madawc Williams <madawcnow@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 00:58 -0700
  Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-03 13:20 +0000
    Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-03 11:41 -0700
      Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-03 15:16 -0400
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          Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-04 12:35 -0400
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          Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 04:29 +0000
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      Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-03 20:57 +0000
        Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-03 17:07 -0400
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        Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-04 00:49 +0000
          Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-04 00:45 -0400
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              Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-04 01:14 -0400
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                Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-04 13:52 -0700
                Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-05 00:02 +0000
                Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-05 00:49 -0400
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                Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? David Duffy <davidD@qimr.edu.au> - 2016-10-05 08:35 +0000
                Re: Was C. S. Lewis the first to say that colonising other planets would be immoral if they had native inhabitants? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-05 11:11 -0700
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