"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told them that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension, so... yeah."

"It honestly makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and they just had to deal with that."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."

"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told them that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension regardless of the fuss, so... yeah."

"It actually makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and they just had to deal with that."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."

"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority and vote to exterminate all life, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told them that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension regardless of the fuss, so... yeah."

"It actually makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and they just had to deal with that."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."

"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority and vote to exterminate all life, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told the nonleaders that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension regardless of the fuss, so... yeah."

"It actually makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and they just had to deal with that."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."

"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority and vote to exterminate all life, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told the nonleaders that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension regardless of the fuss, so... yeah."

"It actually makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and true-suicide would throw them into an unknown distribution of universes."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."

"A number of strange people in dath ilan do not, in fact, want to exist, even in the Future, and don't want anything else to exist either, and they started visibly planning to shut the whole thing down, Civilization I mean, by having lots of kids who were like themselves, so they could become a voting majority and vote to exterminate all life, and there was a big fuss, and the Keepers negotiated with their leaders, and their leaders all told the nonleaders that a deal had been struck, and all of them should just go into cryonic suspension and let the Keepers keep the mysterious deal, and that was really really flaming creepy so there was another large fuss, but, being the sort of people they were, they accepted that and went into cryonic suspension regardless of the fuss, so... yeah."

"It actually makes a lot more sense to me, now that I realize that, among the things the Keepers must have told them, was that it was literally impossible for them to stop existing and true-suicide would throw them into a dangerously unknown distribution of universes."

"So that's not even the question.  The question is just - do you have to exist now, or can you just step through time and exist later instead?  And nobody who's not having fun in the now is obligated to stick around in the now."