Re: (Big Hair Big Guns) The Man From Earth by Gordon R. Dickson

James Nicoll wrote:

The Man From Earth by Gordon R. Dickson
 An assortment of short stories from the late Gordon R. Dickson.
 https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-whole-nother-world
 

In at least one novel Dickson tried to create an alien race which had a consisted but entirely different ethos.  "Right" and "Wrong" were not terms they applied to moral issues, and the human translation of the alien concepts - "Righteous" and its opposite was known to be unsatisfactory.
IIRC the protagonist spends some time trying to convince an alien that at least in the case under consideration, right and righteousness are identical.
I'm not sure Dickson succeeded, but it was an interesting thing to try, and the only thing I recall of the novel fifty years later.
The only instance of Human Awesomeness I can recall from the book is the construction of our shoulders.  The aliens couldn't throw a punch.
William Hyde