In my Science Fiction class, we are reading a book called Ender’s Game. The book is based on a six year old boy who goes to battle school to learn how to fight off these aliens called buggers. It goes through the years Ender spends at the school and shows how the teachers are manipulating him into becoming the best commander ever. When you are at these schools, you can’t speak to any of your family members until a certain age, and no one of the outside world really knows what happens at these schools. This made me think about what the government could make us do in our reality that we might not even know about or be able to change. There could be another world out there with aliens who want to destroy us simply for not understanding this. This sounds a little more science fiction than philosophy, but I think it can be both as it goes into other realities and moralities. Such as, does the government have the right to keep things from its public? I personally think we should be aware of any possible danger. That way we can be ready for anything to come or not be as taken aback if whatever it is someday attacks or communicate or whatever. Secrets are hardly ever good ideas.
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