12-12-2014, 11:11 PM
Some sephirotic transapients might take the position that humans 'naturally' organise themselves into a range of different cultural options, such as democracy, monarchy, tribalism, dictatorship and so on; just as we humans attempt to recreate natural conditions for any particular social animal when we keep them in captivity. Transapient social arrangements will no doubt be radically different.
The transapients would then have two options; they could either support any social structure that the humans choose to adopt, and prevent it from failing, by overt or covert means; this is the strategy generally used in the Utopia Sphere, I imagine. This means that some Utopia Sphere societies will be intrinsically unstable or unworkable, but are kept from failing by 'divine' intervention.
The opposite strategy would generally be used in the NoCoZo, I expect; human societies there are not supported artificially, but allowed to fail. This results in some suffering in certain situations. Other sephirotics will generally fall somewhere along this spectrum.
This is the same dilemma as faced by biologists who study great apes and other social animals; when these animals suffer setbacks, especially if those setbacks are caused by social conflict, in many cases the observers could act to ameliorate that suffering; but by doing so they disturb the relationship between the species concerned and its environment.
Some transapients might make very harsh decisions and display some very callous reactions to suffering that we might find hard to accept.
The transapients would then have two options; they could either support any social structure that the humans choose to adopt, and prevent it from failing, by overt or covert means; this is the strategy generally used in the Utopia Sphere, I imagine. This means that some Utopia Sphere societies will be intrinsically unstable or unworkable, but are kept from failing by 'divine' intervention.
The opposite strategy would generally be used in the NoCoZo, I expect; human societies there are not supported artificially, but allowed to fail. This results in some suffering in certain situations. Other sephirotics will generally fall somewhere along this spectrum.
This is the same dilemma as faced by biologists who study great apes and other social animals; when these animals suffer setbacks, especially if those setbacks are caused by social conflict, in many cases the observers could act to ameliorate that suffering; but by doing so they disturb the relationship between the species concerned and its environment.
Some transapients might make very harsh decisions and display some very callous reactions to suffering that we might find hard to accept.