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> So, they start kidnapping all the prebubescent kids, putting them through
> different ordeals until say 1/3 are killed, then they release the 
> survivors
> back to their original respective planets.

This really has little to do with "political correctness". Offing fictional 
children has always been a touchy thing to do, for obvious reasons: children 
are supposed to be in the care of adults and protected by them. Of course, 
it's been done many times, sometimes to great critical and public acclaim. 
The big problem is that it requires some pretty good literary skills to kill 
fictional children in an *** entertaining *** fashion that's not a gore 
festival ("the alien machines slowly crushed the toddlers' heads, making 
soft popping sounds") or a tearjerker. Note that the "Think of the children" 
kind of people generally love it, as children are perfect (poster) victims 
for propaganda material...

G.

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