From: "Endymion9" <endymion9@mindspring.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Brother & Sister (Geographically speaking)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:16:22 

John Roberson detailed:

>If humans offer themselves willingly to the inhumu, who then develop
>something of their soul/spirit of not harming others and being
>self-sacrificing, then those inhumu will quit feeding on other humans.
>Feeding from only non-sentient animals, they would lose their sentience and
>revert to blood-sucking croc vermin.  While this would get rid of the
inhumu
>problem, it would be somewhat contrary to Incanto's ethical stance, since
he
>believes the inhumu spirits to be developing "souls" and to do something
>that would revert them back to beasts would be "killing" their human-like
>spirits.

Besides the fact that even if the inhumi felt a *human* compulsion as
reverted
back to beast status, once they regained beast status they would forget the
*human* compulsion not to feed on other humans.  Once again as animals
they would naturally feed on humans and regain human nature.  An endless
cycle but not the destruction of inhumi or the salvation of humans.

Dennis/Endy
http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm



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