I have a judicious type of mind, aware, alert, & intuitive, relating knowledge, life, principles & ideals strictly to myself. I have a feeling for poetry that makes it appear a science, & for science that makes of it sort of poetry, a combination of the real & the abstract, the imaginative & the demonstrable, the mystic & the earthly, which gives me a broad hold on all branches of human knowledge & thought.

I have been fascinated throughout life by the unseen, the mysterious & the strange. I lead a private life of my own into which few other people ever penetrate. Yet so great is my grip on reality that these oddities rarely amount to anything & really lend color and mystery to my personality.

I have made many great mistakes, but my self-knowledge is my salvation. At the bottom of the pit of depression, despair or error, I am able to look myself squarely in the face and start building my way back to where I want to be. My inner drive & sense of my own worth amounts to a neurosis which I am able to express on the contructive side.

In my emotional life, I have a naive faith in goodness & belief in the Spiritual reward of the righteous which prevails to the end.

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THOUGHT GAME
Speciesism Sucks

INTELLIGENT BEINGS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI HAVE ARRIVED! WHO ARE THEY?
They appear to be hominids, but they are clearly superior in their technology and in their intelligence (they never forget anything and can mentally beat our computers in calculating figures). They even have unique capabilities (e.g., they have ESP powers). With their technology, they are vastly more powerful than human beings. One might even suggest that they are "superior" to us "puny earthlings" (to quote a phrase used in some video games).

WHAT DO THEY WANT?
Now, many centuries ago they despoiled their planet with pollution and over population. Those problems were long ago solved but they now have no "animal" life on their planet other than themselves. Noting that there are plenty of us on this crowded planet, that we even share some similarity in our physiological functions, they have become interested in "using" us as a planetary resource, and therefore have considered that maybe they should be permitted to "sport" hunt us for their enjoyment, "farm" us for food, and do medical experiments to advance their own medical knowledge

IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE
In the name of fair play, "kindness", or some sense of alien justice, however, they propose to do no more to us than what we are doing to our game, farm and lab animals. Many hundreds of millions of humans will therefore be randomly chosen each year and wrenched from their homes and families to be guinea pigs for their experiments, some very painful and some lasting for years. In the name of "conservation" other humans will be culled by Centaurian sport hunters. And many other human beings will simply be gathered up and factory farmed for a short period in order to fatten them further. With respect to those chosen for medical experiments, at the end of the experiment, if one should survive, one will be used for another experiment and finally at some point one will, of course, be killed and dissected. This is exactly what we do to animals in our labs, and the Alpha Centaurians promise to do no worse. This, of course, seems like little comfort.

A SECOND CHANCE
Now, out of some alien sense of compassion they have, however, given us a chance to be exempt from such treatments as we inflict upon our own planet's non-human animals, but ONLY IF we can convince them with rational argument that it is ethically wrong to use us in this way.

THE CHALLENGE
As a representative of the human race your task is to try to make a case for humans to be exempt from becoming their "livestock", "game", and "research tools". Does anyone care to make the case for why the Alpha Centaurians should NOT experiment upon human beings?

Permit me to point out the obvious. A common excuse often used is that humans are in some important respects "superior" to other animals and to exclude them from concern and compassion. If Centaurians have no right to treat us that way", then what would be a good justification for our current practice of how we in turn treat our fellow animals?