The idea of getting all sentient life forms, human and alien alike,
to agree on a UNIVERSAL MORAL CODE is utterly impossible. Hell, get 15
people together and have them decide on where to go for LUNCH can take
you *days*. The UN brought forth a Universal Bill of Human Rights, and
there are STILL nations that haven't signed it, don't agree with it. Can
you imagine the GREATER differences of opinion when you start bringing
non-humans into the equation?

jms

Of course, getting everyone to agree to support and promote life and
intelligence means coming up with a definition everone out there would
agree upon for both those areas. Would some species even consider us
intelligent? Would their sensory apparatus be sufficient to distinguish
us as living beings, or their biology be so different that by their
standards we don't qualify?

And even here at home, some can use that debate for their own
purposes. I saw a documentary last night about Nazi propaganda films used
before and during the war to encourage doctors to terminate the physically
and mentally disadvantaged, particularly the latter. They were routinely
gassed in asylums. The logic they used: the mentally insane suffered
from "existence without life." Thus there was no crime in eliminating
them.

jms

Eric: I will now collapse your 114 line message into what you were
trying to say behind the fog of words: you want YOUR belief system
to be the primary one portrayed, because yours is the truth, and the rest
are, as you say, "bullshit."

So get your own damned show...aside, of course, from the hundreds of
hours of religious programming *already* filling the airwaves and cable
systems every day of the year.

Sorry, but I'm under no obligation whatsoever to reinforce your or
anyone else's particular idea of what the Truth is. And your particular
breed of intolerance is on of the uglier aspects of modern christianity.

jms