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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Things presented in-story as Good Ideas that seem like really Bad Ideas
Date: 10 Sep 2024 04:02:13 GMT
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In article <kigvdjlg4st5e8fbfc0j7imfevvsdhvru5@4ax.com>,
Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 14:42:10 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>In article <lk79hhFp0bkU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>>>Lucky Starr's "Council Of Science", the Venus Belt, the Federation's
>>>"Prime Directive".  Things like that.
>>>
>>>Examples?
>>>
>>>(How about we exempt Super-Powered Vigilantes)
>>
>>The protagonists of Ben Bova's The Return solves women's insatiable
>>desire to have infinite children by secretly using alien super-
>>science to install fertility limiters on all women. Each woman can 
>>have two kids and then they are sterile.
>>
>>Some issues:
>>
>>It's an egregious violation of personal autonomy.
>>
>>Women do not in fact want infinite babies.
>>
>>Some women won't have babies at all and some children will die 
>>before reproducing. Therefore, the population will decline until
>>humans go extinct. 
>> 
>>The last will be a real issue for the interstellar colonies that
>>head out at the end of the book, none of whom know their population
>>can only decline. 
>
>I think you reviewed something where each couple was limited to 1 kid
>and the population seemed stable?

If that's addressed to me, yes:

   Eye of the Colossus: A Steampunk Space Opera Adventure
   (A Holly Drake Job Book 1)
   by Nicole Grotepas 
   https://amzn.to/2HP8TLo
   
   Hands of the Colossus: A Steampunk Space Opera Adventure
   (A Holly Drake Job Book 2)
   by Nicole Grotepas 
   https://amzn.to/2WzseDk
   
   Heart of the Colossus: A Steampunk Space Opera Adventure 
   (A Holly Drake Job Book 3)
   by Nicole Grotepas
   https://amzn.to/2FLBuPq
   
   When we meet Holly Drake, she is in women's prison after having
   killed her abusive husband in self defense.  It was a clear cut
   case, but due to her husband having been a cop, and corruption in
   the police department, Holly went to jail.
   
   ...
   ...
   ...
   
   I did get a bit of a chuckle out of Grotepas's innumeracy at one point:
   
   	"I thought it was for Odeon."  Holly glanced at her Druiviin
   	friend. He seemed to be talking about the club still. From
   	what Holly understood, Druiviin couples only had one child
   	-- instilling into their single offspring all of the things
   	their line cared for. It was said that their race on Yaso
   	had reached a balanced ecological state: resources weren't
   	over-consumed and by only having one child, they prevented
   	a disastrous imbalance. But when a portion of their population
   	left for the 6-moon region, the ones left behind began to
   	have two children, to replace those who'd left. The immigrants
   	to the 6-moons only had one child, typically.
   
   I'm not sure what she was thinking there!
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