The faction they claim to represent is chronically downtrodden, but soon enough, they become tyrants, terrorizing "their own" people.
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The crime in question is way too massive to forgive, or even prosecute fully. They need to be defeated, but humanity also needs to heal.
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I find it hard to even plow through their PoV chapters, much as they're presented as a fully-fleshed complex group, not cardboard villains.
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(Comparison-wise, they're more like IRA than ISIS; bitter idealists, rather than brutal nihilists. But the end result is the same.)
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It's a tricky dilemma the book presents: how do you defeat destructive factions w.o sundering humanity apart w planet-killing total war?
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The dilemma is increasingly becoming pertinent to real world conflict, and we've only got the one planet to preserve, or wreck.
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Not that a solar system diaspora would necessarily safeguard against that. Artificial habitats would be vulnerable to even contemporary arms
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Also, not an argument against a diaspora, but living on the same planet incentivizes towards mostly preserving its viability. Or, it used to
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