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Old 01.29.2009, 02:22 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Lurker
No I meant it would lose humaness by being completely designed unlike the way cities usually develop.

It might start with a few but how long until there's very little sea left to see.

Yes, but wouldn't that add to the humanness of society? Wouldn't there be more human effort involved? To me, while I do believe many things (I don't want to say essential things, although they may seem essential to life as we know it know) would be lost, I don't believe humanness would be one of them.

It may seem more human to work with the land we are given and plan around what is already here, but as I mentioned before, we only see that as essential to humanity because it is all we have ever known. We are biased toward land right now; I don't believe it would take long for our viewpoint to change.
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