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Please tell me that there's a short story on this. I'm envisioning a cigar-chomping developer trying to lobby for building on "prime real estate" while some nut

Please tell me that there's a short story on this. I'm envisioning a cigar-chomping developer trying to lobby for building on "prime real estate" while some nutball hippie lawyer is working tirelessly to stop him while his colleagues deride him for caring so much about "carbon-based animals." "Well, we've done it billions of times before. What makes these ones any different?" "It was wrong the last billions of times we did it, too." "Well, you're living on a planet that was taken from some lesser species. And so was the planet your forefathers settled on. And them before that, and them before that. This is the natural course of things. Sucks to be them." I'd read that.

craigching 12y ago
It's a stretch, but isn't this "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy? :)
arethuza 12y ago
There is The State of the Art about the time the Culture comes to visit Earth - there is a decent BBC Radio 4 version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU NB The Culture has the opposite of the Star Trek Federation's Prime Directive - they justify to themselves the hedonistic paradise that 99% of their population (biologicals and machines) live in through the interference of their Contact and Special Circumstances sections in the affairs of "lesser" civilisations.