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3. Would a human being's moral duty to a rational alien be different from his duty to his fellow man, or the same? How and/or why?
   
   
4. Mala says, "The elders say for a long time we were apart from nature, but now we're together forever." How do you think Mala's people have changed? How was this change for the better or the worse? Do you think this sort of change is possible or desirable? Why or why not?
   
   

The Family Corner

Battle for Terra is rated PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and some thematic elements. There are a number of battle sequences, and characters, sometimes significant ones, are killed. The story raises significant issues that parents may want to discuss with children: Human characters debate genocide as the only option to save mankind, and in one scene a character forces another character to choose between the death of a relation from his own species or that of a member of the other species who has helped him. Among the Terrians, there is misguided talk of "gods" and "miracles," and blind trust in "the elders."

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