I honestly can't tell anymore if this is just things I mentally inserted into the book to make it less sketch, but my impression was that it's a less dickish thing to do in the context of Cygnus Beta because their social systems work differently. So it's not so much that Lord doesn't think it's dickish, it's just that she's really confident that it won't go as badly as it would in our world because they have way better systems for dealing with parents needing support. It's a dick move, but because no one is going to be stuck with a kid they didn't want or have no way to provide for, and neither is there any chance that people are going to be allowed to take the kids away, it really is a situation that's more laughable than awful.
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I honestly can't tell anymore if this is just things I mentally inserted into the book to make it less sketch, but my impression was that it's a less dickish thing to do in the context of Cygnus Beta because their social systems work differently. So it's not so much that Lord doesn't think it's dickish, it's just that she's really confident that it won't go as badly as it would in our world because they have way better systems for dealing with parents needing support. It's a dick move, but because no one is going to be stuck with a kid they didn't want or have no way to provide for, and neither is there any chance that people are going to be allowed to take the kids away, it really is a situation that's more laughable than awful.