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(Saturday afternoon, INT: EB and JH's living room)
LH: Florenovia has no aging, and virtually no deaths due to accidents, violence or disease. There's no FTL - at least none that we can use for immigration purposes - so the human race is essentially confined to our solar system. There's only a certain number of people the planets can support - that number is slowly growing with advances in technology, but it's still finite.
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NP: Yeah, but I... I mean I'd say it's a natural element of human psychology - humans are naturally going to want to have babies. Humans love having babies!
MH: ...nnnnot necessarily all of us. And hey, it's also natural for humans to average one testicle per person, apparently the Florenovians have thrown "natural" out the window entirely.
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EB: There's a thought, actually. If we have control over libido and appetite, is the instinct for motherhood also controllable? If there was a story about that, I didn't catch it.
GU: Well, where does it end? What counts as an instinct or an appetite? Could we suppress the instinct for blinking or for coughing or itchiness?
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MH: Ooh, I'm signing up for any and all itch-suppression technology. I'm gonna go ahead and write "cannot be itchy" at the top of my character sheet, okay?
LH: If being less itchy motivates you to take down a group of baby-crazy Martian hillbillies that have been hijacking carrot shipments, be my guest.
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