ISS: Sharon, Loyalist Pacifist

Unending BE - episode 297806

"You're quite right when you say that I've grown attached to Humanity in general," said Sharon. "And I guess that, given the history of your own species, the term 'the State' must sound threatening. But there is in fact a wide margin for variety and diversity within the State. Take me. You know me. I could never be a soldier. I'm more a Make Love, Not War person! That puts me in the minority of the State citizenry. My State and most of its citizens believe in war and live and prosper by it. But we don't fight everyone all the time, and because of that, I am free to concentrate on the much nicer things that the State does."

"Being an invasion scout is nice?"

Sharon smiled patiently. "I can see that we're going to have circular arguments over Earthbound semantics. But that's all right. I'm not an invasion scout as you would ordinarily understand one. Yes, I work for invasion plans -- but plans that will invade other planets, not Earth. I'm really very low level; I'm trying to develop new sources of worker and soldier populations for a few military campaigns right here in this galactic sector. Because of my long lifespan, I hope to see my current plans reach fruition one or two centuries from now. But Earth itself will never be invaded, especially if we can guide it from its current cultural adolescence. All we want is for you to be happy mass producing babies who will grow up and go out and help us conquer hundreds of other worlds, worlds thousands of years more advanced than Earth."

Jim chewed on that. "Because all we're good for anyway is fucking and killing."

"Yes," said Sharon, and in her calm happy answer Jim detected not one glimmer of irony. "Everything about you -- your history, your culture, your genetics -- makes that plainly obvious. Fuck fuck fuck, kill kill kill! That's you Earthlings." She shook her head, as if in good humor over some naughty child. "You're going to kill anyway. So why kill each other? What a waste, of all that lovely sex drive, and a perfectly good planet too! Instead, why not unite and kill whoever we tell you to kill? So you see, Jim, there is a peaceful agenda hiding in all this. Peace for Earth."

"But not your enemies."

"Oh ... but do you agree with everything that your own government does? Or that corporations do around the world in the name of you, their customer? I may not be very moral ... but am I any less moral than the average human?"

"I guess I was just hoping ... a higher civilization, a higher code of behavior."

"It IS higher, Jim. I hope you'll see that someday. In the meantime, I think I owe you something."

She pointed at Jim and snapped her fingers.

  1. *Jim gets to see a case study of what the State has in store for Earth.
  2. Or, maybe he doesn't.
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