differences in our Laws are not really all that different. We tend to weigh the rights of the public a little bit heavier, where you tend to weigh the rights of the individual more. I think the differences between us, in time, may turn in your favor.
22 We will convey your answers to our Leader. I am sure he will approve of them. We will bid you leave until the general gathering later."
23 Now, the second group that came in, The Trions, looked exactly like The Spearons, but Morn understood that none of them had a real mother, that their eggs and seed were taken from their parents, that the resulting child developed in a cow, that many of them were actually the clones of their few surviving Ancestors from The Great War that had nearly destroyed The Peepian System. That after the necessary substances were gained from them in their youth to reproduce their species, both male and female were surgically sterilized.
24 All were required to raise four children, but they never knew if these children were their own, or someone else's.
25 No sooner had they sat down, than their Spokesman looked at Morn. "You find us repulsive, don't you?" he asked.
26 Even Morn was taken back. "Perhaps not repulsive," he answered, "strange....unnatural. I, myself, could not live your way, but who am I to judge your society? As long as you do not attempt to force it on others, and it is truly the will of your people and your young that wish not to live your way are permitted to leave, it is up to you how you live.
27 And I understand all that I say is true, that sometimes as much as ten per cent of your new generations decide to live with others. As long is this free will exists, as strange as it is, you have the right to your way of life."
28 The Spokesman nodded. "If you had answered any

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