RE: Mars
February 19, 2019 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2019 at 12:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 19, 2019 at 10:36 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Why are children required?
I don't think that we're looking at this the same way. We don't have to imagine the future to see what you're describing. We've done it here, from the excursions to the new world to remote jobsites to offshore rigs. Children bring no more practical utility in those situations than they would in off-world colonization. Broadly, that's the difference between a labor camp and a colony. While it may be tru that children aren't a requirement for an off world (or on world) labor camp..it's probably not accurate to assert that they bring nothing (even to that labor camp). The presence or absence of children profoundly indicates success or failure of colonization, to me. It cuts to the entire point of colonization as distinct from the creation of labor camps.
-for the above, the more we suggest that these human beings have been modified to be unlike us the less we're talking about a successful human colony and the more we're talking about a "whatever the hell they are" colony..still likely used by us as a labor camp. Perhaps even more so, if these designer adults can be effectively argued as property rather than people.
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