“The human is a highly complex organism, motivated by a variety of emotions- curiosity, courage, cussedness, love, hatred, boredom, and a combination of others.
The puppeteers were gentle-in fact one of their most laudable and dominate characteristics was cowardice-which made for a very high survival factor. At least for puppeteers.
The most admirable thing of course, was that they were willing, (and very able) to pay others aliens to take the risks they were morally obliged not to take themselves. Which appealed highly to the greed in certain life-forms.
Notably homo sapiens…”
Neutron Star, Larry Niven, Ballantine Books, 1968
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