PS: For those who've not read the novel, I should mention what I left out above: that the author clearly endorses this kind of behavior by humans. This is not Stephen Baxter, who portrays an evil human race and clearly thinks that it is evil. Scalzi never offers a single alternative ethical view except by asses, and he portrays all aliens as either religious maniacs or motivated by a desire to eat human flesh. Moral reflection for the characters is limited to discussing how much they miss pie; they never, literally never, express the slightest bit of empathy or sympathy for other kinds of living things.
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