“So, specifically my generation, not my parents’ or Queen Victoria’s or… yours? That’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off.”
Maybe I have to spend a thousand years entertaining myself by making up total bullshit about my culture to troll the scientists, but eventually some group with completely different political beliefs will takeover, and maybe I’ll share the same fate as the zookeepers but I’ll damn sure be beaming the smuggest shiteating I-told-you-so grin at the zookeeper while the 41st-century neonazis hang us both in their day of the rope.
But ok, sure, maybe it’d really suck, but the plausibility? Future generations collectively decide that punishing individuals for the crimes of the generation they were born in makes sense, future generations believe my generation committed crimes worth being that harsh in punishing, future generations think it’s plausible they might accidentally commit said crimes but still find members of past generations culpable, criminals don’t have rights in the future, future generations fail at between-generations prisoner’s dilemmas, somehow the best way to learn about a previous generation is to examine in vitro an extremely eccentric sample of said generation… there could be more, but that’s already enough conjunctions to flush the probability down the wazoo.
“So, specifically my generation, not my parents’ or Queen Victoria’s or… yours? That’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off.”
Maybe I have to spend a thousand years entertaining myself by making up total bullshit about my culture to troll the scientists, but eventually some group with completely different political beliefs will takeover, and maybe I’ll share the same fate as the zookeepers but I’ll damn sure be beaming the smuggest shiteating I-told-you-so grin at the zookeeper while the 41st-century neonazis hang us both in their day of the rope.
But ok, sure, maybe it’d really suck, but the plausibility? Future generations collectively decide that punishing individuals for the crimes of the generation they were born in makes sense, future generations believe my generation committed crimes worth being that harsh in punishing, future generations think it’s plausible they might accidentally commit said crimes but still find members of past generations culpable, criminals don’t have rights in the future, future generations fail at between-generations prisoner’s dilemmas, somehow the best way to learn about a previous generation is to examine in vitro an extremely eccentric sample of said generation… there could be more, but that’s already enough conjunctions to flush the probability down the wazoo.