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"What do you believe?""It doesn't matter what I believe.""I want to know anyway.""They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what oneremembers, another can also remember. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn toread and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Ornumbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn't just a matter of translating from one language toanother. They don't have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them,but they don't even have the machinery to know we're signaling. And maybe they've been trying to think to us,and they can't understand why we don't respond.""So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.""If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.""What if we just left them alone?""Ender, we didn't go to them first, they came to us. If they were going to leave us alone, they could have done ita hundred years ago, before the First Invasion.""Maybe they didn't know we were intelligent life. Maybe--""Ender, believe me, there's a century of discussion on this very subject. Nobody knows the answer. When itcomes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: if one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn surewe're the ones alive at the end. Our genes won't let us decide any other way. Nature can't evolve a species thathasn't a will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never第 267 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网