Their grandchildren also won’t know any different though.
If we ever undertake multi-generation trips to distant stars, the initial crew will be optimistic enthusiasts, but their grandchildren will have reverted to the mean and will curse their grandparents for consigning them to live and die aboard a spaceship.
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Americans don't know any different (in the other direction) and it doesn't stop us from complaining today
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Or wouldn’t a starship feel completely normal to the descendants?
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Only if you don’t show to them any pictures of Earth...
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Recently read one great fictionalization of this in "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Is such an endeavor ethical?
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KSR’s Aurora covers this, along with some other problems. Great read, but pessimistic on colonisation.
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Reminds me of a friend’s comment about China’s ascendance: “don’t worry… they’ll get rich and lazy and jaded in a generation just like us.”
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That's quite some assertion. What's your argument for that?
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