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I see somewhat of an analogy now between this and Clarke's Cradle. The theme of a very physically and abruptly changing humanity.
What I do wonder, though, is why, in this entire story, nobody ever seriously considered the option of just leaving each other be. Live and let live and all that. It seemed rather obvious to me. Three species meet, exchange what they will, and go their own separate ways. After all, morality is subjective, and any species that understands the prisoners dilemma should understand that as well. All they had to do was walk away.
Well. Morality may be subjective, but morality encodes preferences over states of the universe.
Yours may discount states that are far away and don't reach you; mine doesn't, so I'm with the Lord Pilot here. It would be impossible for me to satisfy my sense of ethics without doing something about the Babyeaters, even if that requires splitting humanity.
because both humans and super-happies agree: baby-eating needs to STOP ASAP!