#orvaran solution cw

[staringtowardthestars]

Regardless of your views on red rights, it doesn’t help anyone to prevent Orvara from having access to faster-than-light travel. They cannot undo what they’ve already done, and denying them such access only serves to hurt Orvara’s citizens for no benefit. While of course such arguments don’t apply to any country that uses such a method in the future (given sufficiently pro-red-person postulates), as Anitam would presumably wish to deter other countries from doing the same thing, punishing countries for actions taken years ago will not have such a deterrent impact. 

While there is an argument to be made that there may be aliens in the universe, and it would be a disaster if a country exterminated an entire species of aliens due to differences in pollution protocol, punishing Orvara on such grounds is at best using a poor proxy for the relevant quality. Orvara did not pioneer the Orvaran solution because it was unusually anti-red person, but because it was unusually high in theologian density. Other metrics of treatment of red people show Orvara as fairly typical. Furthermore, Orvara has an unusually positive attitude towards hyposensitive people, which can be seen both in policies, such as the illegality of Natural Aversion Therapy, and in more general surveys of attitudes [1].  

(Oyand, on the other hand, clearly lacks the necessary organizational skills to safely administer a colonization mission.)

[staringtowardthestars]

You misunderstand. It should have been tested in one city. The reds from that city should have remained in their district, receiving a pension and food deliveries. Then it should have been tried in additional cities, and their reds also pensioned off. The first countries to transition to the Orvaran solution should have continued to issue a small number of red credits. When all countries were using rotations, then ALL of the reds could have been killed at once, Rivik-style, and none spared.

Perhaps that would have been more strategic, but Orvara’s failure to do that does not make it ethical to deny it faster-than-light travel. Besides, when Orvara’s red people failed to riot after Lathande, it was reasonable for Orvara to conclude that continued use of that solution would not cause problems.

[staringtowardthestars]

Inventing the Orvaran pollution-handling protocol is just giving countries more options. Letting the reds from their test city pollute an abandoned mine and then starving them to death, however, was a signal to reds in Biyan. The reds should not have had warning. They should have been kept comfortable after their obsolescence until all Amenta was red-free. Then they could have all been killed, without the disaster in Biyan, without the creation of Miolee.

It would have been far more irresponsible to introduce the Orvaran solution simultaneously worldwide without testing it.

Biyan could have avoided its disaster by continuing not to phase out its red people, which is what it would have done if the Orvaran solution had never become an option.