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Government & Justice on a generation ship ( opinion ) [spoilers]

posted 3 years ago by brux (14666)
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When the "good" crowd gets the surveillance video and sees Zac and the other guy who are monitoring Colin Farrel outside the ship, and the see that they deliberately and psychopathologically and criminally decided to shock him, even if they did not mean to kill him, even if that was not their intent ... they are talking about what to do.

If I was leader, and I had to make a split second judgement, I'd say, anyone who deliberately and criminally decides to play with the leader of the expedition's life with no reason other than that they just do not care or do not have any empathy or civilization to refrain from criminality - in a split second I would classify them as criminally insane and a danger to the mission and the crew.

So then, the question is what do you do?

If you take the evidence to the crew you will get a lot of misdirection, emotion, noise and excuses and it will lead to nowhere. If you think can go and capture and confine those two, remember you have a small crew that are immature and just feeling human desired and emotions for the first time. You have a lot of work and organization and you are down two crew members.

If you confine the two to prison - you have to feed them and commit people to guard them. That is not economic or possible.

In my opinion their decision should have been to go and terminate them as fast and as quietly as possible. Get rid of their bodies, and then call a ship's meeting and explain what you did and why.

Swift justice administered with no other real choice or alternative. Any other course of action relies on the chance that everything will go perfectly and rationally and that the crew will take their roles as jurists seriously and be mature enough to do that. I don't see it.

The only choice would be to terminate them.

But, then what?

[–] xergan (879) 2 months ago

That's why they were drugged, not sure if this would stop psychopaths from doing their shit, but it would at least make it harder for them to do significant havoc. Also psychopathic tensions might be sometimes helpful.
But I agree, they should have teached the kids also about unpropiate behavior, so they would be able to identify that - they were all highly intelligent kids who would be able to understand the concepts abstractly. Thus the group dynamics the psycho kid did would been easily detected and stopped. He only was able to succeed because they didn't know what he is doing to him.
Also on a generation ship is the problem of food. You can't extend your place and grow more food, so the question is: what did earth planned? Logically, there would be no grand parents generation, as I don't see many scenarios, where they were useful after growing up the kids. I don't see much of use for the elderly generations when the next next generation hits 10 and gets into puberty. The food would be needed for the teenager, not the elderly => so death by 58-60.