Blue and Orange Morality: Difference between revisions

* The Third Men in ''[[Last and First Men]]'' are essentially a [[Planet of Hats|species of esthetes]]. At one point their entire world was dominated by an empire based on ''music.'' Their final civilization was obsessed with biological manipulation: one faction used to breed ever more powerful diseases and parasites on the grounds that when a "higher" lifeform is slain by a virus, it has a certain ironic beauty.

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] was particularly well known for his ... interesting takes on morality throughout his works.

*** That could be why the main character in the story who was raised on Mars breaks into a prison, uses his abilities to end the existence of the worst offenders, and then erases the bars in a similar fashion, thus setting everyone else free. He just eliminates anything that he thinks should not exist, including certain people.

*** A few other tidbits: they can't fathom hate or dislike anyone or thing with more than a "mild distaste," this is because they devote so much time to understanding things that they can never truly hate it. Also, they see no wrong in obliterating planetary civilizations if, after centuries of contemplation, they decide it necessary, as they did with the fifth planet in our solar system. No, not Jupiter, the planet that is now ''the asteroid belt''.