Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Perhaps you have not seen this? http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/09/the-right-to-kill-brazil-infanticide/ (A 'backwoods' culture of killing handicapped children isn't just fiction, unfortunately.)
Lois McMaster Bujold
I had not seen this, but the practices it discusses are by no means unusual, especially across history. (And prehistory, though that's harder to suss out.) Look up the infanticide practices of the Romans and Greeks, if you want something closer to home. I don't know if anyone has done work on the practices of the Teutonic tribes, but I'd expect something similar, or in any culture that is periodically or routinely thrust to the edge of survival.
Selective infanticide is the historical norm. Saving such children is new, and largely a consequence of advances in technology and the economy. (As a rule of thumb, people tend to embrace the moralities they can afford.)
Ta, L.
I had not seen this, but the practices it discusses are by no means unusual, especially across history. (And prehistory, though that's harder to suss out.) Look up the infanticide practices of the Romans and Greeks, if you want something closer to home. I don't know if anyone has done work on the practices of the Teutonic tribes, but I'd expect something similar, or in any culture that is periodically or routinely thrust to the edge of survival.
Selective infanticide is the historical norm. Saving such children is new, and largely a consequence of advances in technology and the economy. (As a rule of thumb, people tend to embrace the moralities they can afford.)
Ta, L.
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I’m fascinated by the way your fictional universes address religion. The Vorkosiverse is secular, although individuals may have personal religious beliefs. In Chalion the gods are real, present, dangerous, and woven into most aspects of society. In the Sharing Knife world the gods seem equally real but have abandoned humanity. How did these approaches evolve? Was it fun playing with religion and society like that?
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