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Tribal traditionalists express concern over capsuleer fertility
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Ciarente
Toin Night Research
#21 - 2014-02-20 08:26:44 UTC
How delightful to see so many people ready to share their opinions on my suitability as a mother! Thank you ever so for sharing your terribly informed opinions on what is best for my family! I will most definitely give them all the attention they deserve!
Laria Raven
The Scope
#22 - 2014-02-20 08:39:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Laria Raven
Given capsuleer's prolonged attempts to denude the entire cluster of any human life whatsoever, maybe we should be encouraging a one in, one out policy?

...didn't think so.

Here's the thing - capsuleers make choices about their bodies, about their relationships, about whether they want or can support children, about the risks and the uncertainties.

Just like everyone else.

And whilst we have great power. Well, OK, some of us have great power, and most of us have great wealth... in the end, our personal decisions are not significantly different to the rest of the species. And are also, and possibly most importantly, not anyone else's business.

Fallen from grace. And as night comes, may flights of Angels visit your sleep... shoot your ships and steal all of your stuff.
Apollo Lyserius
Minerva Technologies
#23 - 2014-02-20 11:52:30 UTC
Most, if not all, the arguments against capsuleer parenting exposed here are vague generic assumptions about the psychological aptitude of capsuleers as if they were an uniform lot, all with similar mindsets and activities.The rest are easily circumvented matters. Not all of us are murderer-death-dealers-adventurers-who-live-on-constant-risk.

Children of capsuleers may perfectly follow their steps and become capsuleers as well. My wild guess is that in a medium-term future, the entirety of humanity will eventually become immortal - just look at the recent advent of immortal infantry. How far are we from exporting that technology to civilians?

Being a capsuleer is irrelevant to one's aptitude to be a parent. Military personnel and industrial staff working on remote corners of the cluster may be worse parents than capsuleers living safely on the core of high-security space. And even that is a generic and potentially wrong assumption - some of the best fathers I know have fought long wars away from home.

So, until we have a case of a capsuleer becoming so old and having died so much that he loses all of his humanity, much like the vampires of fiction, being a capsuleer influences nothing on one's aptitude to be a parent.
Kyllsa Siikanen
Tuonelan Virta
#24 - 2014-02-20 13:07:10 UTC
Ciarente wrote:
How delightful to see so many people ready to share their opinions on my suitability as a mother! Thank you ever so for sharing your terribly informed opinions on what is best for my family! I will most definitely give them all the attention they deserve!


I like you.

“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” 

― C.S. Lewis 
Iwan Terpalen
Doomheim
#25 - 2014-02-20 13:12:36 UTC
That's what high-grade social implants hard at work look like, I take it.
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