It wasn't a movie, it was an episode on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. And it was called "To Serve Mankind." And it was adapted from an S.f. short story by Damon Knight. Serling always gets the credit, but it was Knight's story.
It wasn't a movie, it was an episode on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. And it was called "To Serve Mankind." And it was adapted from an S.f. short story by Damon Knight. Serling always gets the credit, but it was Knight's story.
Ah yes, it has been a long while since I've seen it. Thanks for the clarification.
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kuvasz
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Wed 28 Oct, 2009 11:04 pm
@blackdiamond47,
The idea has been around for millennia in the West.
The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle argued that:
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"We must not regard a citizen as belonging just to himself: we must rather regard every citizen belonging to the state."