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"Life insurance.  Okay, your language has a word for that so it probably exists here too.  I think that very few rape victims - in dath ilan, not here - would choose not to take abortifacients, and if they chose not do that, back to the transcendant responsibility again.  If a young girl on Earth was pressured by their parents out of taking an abortifacient, we'd probably see that as a special case and make an exception?  But more generally it's clear that a lot of Earth people simply don't consider parents responsible for children in the same way we do.  You can't yell at aliens who don't share your moral code for violating it, and it's pointless to hit them with penalties they had no idea existed at the time.  So I am reasonably certain that the first generation of Earthlings just gets considered as innocent confused victims of Earth's suboptimal equilibria, and allowed into the refuges regardless of whether they have kids.  It's possible that our people might ask Earthlings to accept temporary contraceptive implants on entry - I think I might resort to that, for lack of better solutions, if I had to decide everything myself - but I also have a feeling that the people much smarter than I am will come up with much better solutions I'm not seeing, and the prediction markets will predict much better results from them."

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"Life insurance.  Okay, your language has a word for that so it probably exists here too?  I think that very few rape victims - in dath ilan, not here - would choose not to take abortifacients, and if they chose not do that, back to the transcendant responsibility again.  If a young girl on Earth was pressured by their parents out of taking an abortifacient, we'd probably see that as a special case and make an exception?  But more generally it's clear that a lot of Earth people simply don't consider parents responsible for children in the same way we do.  You can't yell at aliens who don't share your moral code for violating it, and it's pointless to hit them with penalties they had no idea existed at the time.  So I am reasonably certain that the first generation of Earthlings just gets considered as innocent confused victims of Earth's suboptimal equilibria, and allowed into the refuges regardless of whether they have kids.  It's possible that our people might ask Earthlings to accept temporary contraceptive implants on entry - I think I might resort to that, for lack of better solutions, if I had to decide everything myself - but I also have a feeling that the people much smarter than I am will come up with much better solutions I'm not seeing, and the prediction markets will predict much better results from them."

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"Life insurance.  Okay, your language has a word for that so it probably exists here too?  I think that very few rape victims - in dath ilan, not here - would choose not to take abortifacients, and if they chose not do that, back to the transcendant responsibility again.  If a young girl on Earth was pressured by their parents out of taking an abortifacient, we'd probably see that as a special case and make an exception?  But more generally it's clear that a lot of Earth people simply don't consider parents responsible for children in the same way we do.  You can't yell at aliens who don't share your moral code for violating it, and it's pointless to hit them with penalties they had no idea existed at the time.  So I am reasonably certain that the first generation of Earthlings just gets considered as confused victims of Earth's suboptimal equilibria, and allowed into the refuges regardless of whether they have kids.  It's possible that our people might ask Earthlings to accept temporary contraceptive implants on entry - I think I might resort to that, for lack of better solutions, if I had to decide everything myself - but I also have a feeling that the people much smarter than I am will come up with much better solutions I'm not seeing, and the prediction markets will predict much better results from them."