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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by blar on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:48PM (#45607686)
Kim Stanley Robinson's thesis in Aurora was: no. Subsequent generations would _not_ be happy with their ancestors' choices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by marcosdumay on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:18PM (#45609545)
At some point, some of your ancestors made the choice to migrate and force your family to be born in a different place.

Do you resent them?

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by pavel_lishin on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:24PM (#45609620)
No - but I can also, in turn, choose to migrate elsewhere. People born on a generation ship don't have that choice.
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by Hendrikto on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:21AM (#45615405)
You are free to move anywhere on earth within a single generation. The situation is very different from a generation ship.
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