I really think ppl who have to build theories of mind from scratch understand them better than those whose development proceeds typically
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I mean the central concept of Ender Wiggin is that he thinks everyone, himself included, is an alien
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He also has an incredibly strong sense of self preservation even though he doesn't know what it means to be himself
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This I'm pretty sure is how Card views himself and all humans and he's right about that part. Hence his "heterosexuality"
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Where he admits that his sexuality is androphilic but he thinks everyone is like that because women are scary weird aliens but >
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> he's obligated, like Ender, to understand the scary weird aliens and also help them reproduce
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Hey so again that short story he wrote about the lost Bugger colony
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We find out Bugger drones, if left alone and isolated long enough, can develop rudimentary sentience
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They develop individual names, personalities, even relationships -- they come to love and care for each other
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But compared to the Hive Queens they are clumsy and stupid and, most importantly, they are sterile
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They are a dead end that will lead their species into extinction
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So the human protagonist makes the terrible decision to bring them back to the hive
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Even though contact with the Hive Queen will reduce them back to mindless slaves and is essentially death for them, or worse
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