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The Anti-Nihilist: The Church of the Flame and other mainstream Imperial philosophies, essentially, whose official doctrines are more or less comfortable with the brokenness and lack of meaning in the universe, and which then manufacture some meaning out of a few assumptions concerning the nature of sophoncy and negentropy, and
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted to varying degrees (and, obviously, in the naïve sense, completely averted since there are no humans at all). The standard view, in the Associated Worlds, is that described in the Universal Accord on Sophont Rights: anything that thinks and has volition (i.e., is
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Terminally Dependent Society: Consciously averted, because even the people who run big, centralizable systems in the Empire are Genre Savvy about this one, and engage in distribution, variation, and redundancy whenever they can, in things as disparate as power grids, air recyclers, parcel delivery, and executive authority. There’re still