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RipCityGGG t1_j10r4fn wrote

Reply to comment by Em_Adespoton in How would we get about traveling through deep space? by MysteryMystery305

you could freeze fertilised embryos for a long time, then have AI robots raise them or holograms or something.

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houseman1131 t1_j10s5j7 wrote

The issue with that is you're literally making slaves for your mission. They didn't choose to be born we would be forcing them into existence and into maintaining a ship.

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tropicsun t1_j10tqiz wrote

"They didn't choose to be born we would be forcing them into existence and into maintaining a ship."

so like humans on earth?

Earth is just a vessel...

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CommentToBeDeleted t1_j10uf6q wrote

Not to be argumentative here, but what are babies, if not unwilling participants in our society?

I mean we choose to have kids, they do not choose to be born, they just are, fully against their will.

Generally, society creates pressure that forces them into school and work, abiding by rules, customs, and laws, for virtually their entire lives. In fact, failure to do so could mean incarceration or death.

And that's just among many of the developed nations, where most of would respond with a resounding "yes" for whether or not we would want to have been born.

Suppose you were a child who was born during the holocaust, who lived and died in a concentration camp. Would you still have wanted to be born? What about a baby born with cancer or a child into poverty, who lives hungry and cold and dies no different?

Babies are absolutely unwilling participants in their creation and are more ore less stuck into whatever situation, place, economic class and time period they are born into.

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RipCityGGG t1_j10sk9j wrote

Sounds like a movie plot, were they grow up realise, slingshot the ship around and try to make it to see home

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Orpheus75 t1_j10tx2c wrote

The point is to raise them the last few years of the journey so they are educated functioning adults when they arrive. The robots do all of the maintenance.

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redruben234 t1_j10u9wl wrote

While an interesting philosophical problem not one with a good solution at all.

If it's our only way to colonize planets outside our solar system I think it's worth doing

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SiskoandDax t1_j10udik wrote

Two sets of slaves. The AI arguably could be one, especially left to their own devices to evolve for several decades.

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