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Post by Witcher Wolf on Nov 4, 2006 7:05:51 GMT -5
Or even, do they go to the furnaces
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Post by Aedh on Nov 4, 2006 7:27:15 GMT -5
In my take on Libria (though it doesn't appear much), people are simply euthanised when they get to a certain age .... there comes a point where they get ill and have to go to hospital, they're promised some treatment, and simply given a lethal injection. Which is, in this society, actually considered a treatment ... you're sick -- you get the injection -- you're not sick anymore. Citizens call it "final treatment" and many actually look forward to it.
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Post by reveria on Jul 23, 2007 6:32:10 GMT -5
What about children? They learn through play, at what age would they be dosed from and how would being emotionally repressed affect their development and interaction with others? Such an isolated life. That is an interesting question. I was thinking about that too when I wrote a certain passage of CTI. Eventually, I chose the age of the first dose to be one year, simply because it seems that usually at around that time children "leap" - changing from dependent babies to more independent toddlers. That's when they become "difficult", so Librian parents would want to start injecting them to smooth out any problems. I'm sure there's quite a few medical conditions out there that often require medication. For example, both my brothers have ADHS and took small doses of medication from an early age. Needless to say the playfulness of childhood as we know it would be gone. But I suppose you only have to look as far as Japan, where childhood ends early and schooling starts the moment children enter kindergarten (or earlier). Librian children would probably be conditioned to be self-sufficient, single-minded (indoctrination of the importance of the communal existence), appropriately behaved (but not overly sociable, i.e. no "play dates" and things like that), etc. You cannot miss what you've never known. No doubt such an upbringing goes against the nature of a child, but if that's what they're used to, I doubt they'll rebel much. I have no idea about the extent of possible psychological damage, we'll have to ask Libby about that. But I suppose if Librian parents fulfill their (rather emotionally detached) duties of caring (i.e. feeding and being a role model) for their children, they won't be complete wrecks... unless they found out what they're missing. And what about when a Librian citizen is past being a productive servant? Do they get retired or does it all go Logan's Run or the Soylent Green route (obviously we don't know, but there wasn't much greenery in Libria)? Hmmm, interesting. I guess retired Clerics would either become teachers at the monastery, or join Intelligence, Security, become military strategists, etc. Something that'll allow them to put their knowledge to good use even if they can't participate in active combat anymore. The really good ones might be considered for a position in the Council. As for the rest of the population... I can't see a reason why they shouldn't just retire. Birth rates seem very controlled, so Libria probably doesn't have the problems countries have with declining birth rates (=nobody to pay for pensions).
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