Summary: The Space Trade

The Space Traders begin with the arrival of an extraterrestrial species, named Space Traders, which offer a solution to the current financial and environmental crises that America faces for an exchange of the current African American population. This initial offer was greeted with overwhelming support by the white population who viewed the space traders as being pleasant and unthreatening. Conversely, the black population did not share the same enthusiasm toward the space traders and disapproved the offer they had presented. However, it was not the choice of the people to make the decision regarding the offer but was the responsibility of the government. It was the government that had to decide if it would give up fifteen percent of its population in order to …show more content…
In other words, the sacrifice of roughly fifteen percent of the population was justified as it would allow overall satisfaction to increase in the majority population. This seems more in tune with classical utilitarianism which intrinsically treats the rights of individuals as being only byproducts of seeking overall satisfaction. This is, however, problematic, as the violation of any rights is justified in such a society as long as the greatest sum of satisfaction is obtained. It is, however, the case that the United States is not a classical utilitarian government and assumes that individuals have rights that surpass any form of government. Because of this, it can be argued that the rights of African Americans was violated not only by the constitutional amendment but by the blocking of the boarders. The African American population had no right not to participate in the offer. They were gathered without choice to be banished to the unknown fate of the space traders. Consequently, there was no fair trial or due process in this decision to remove all African Americans from the