Re: [GZG] Ixx Psychology & behaviour?

>Yes that would be the big cosmic joke...
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>The creatures that humans have the strongest "yuck" reaction to, is 
>our friend and helping us kill the other humanoid species.

Which, or course, is pretty much what Alan Dean Foster did with the 
Thranx! The "bugs" are really nice and friendly to us, but a lot of 
humans still react in an "eeeewwwww, bugs!!!" way to them....  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

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>From: Damo <damosan@gmail.com>
>To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
>Sent: Monday, 8 December, 2008 11:35:55 AM
>Subject: Re: [GZG] Ixx Psychology & behaviour?
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>On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:24 PM, John Tailby wrote:
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>>  Are not all the alien races in the GZG universe "boogey men" from 
>>  the human point of view? I
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>Ya know?  I'm loath to suggest it but it'd be kind of nice to have an 
>alien race that, you know, befriends the human race.  Perhaps lending 
>a hand against the 'Vak?
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>Damo
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