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#1 2025-09-29 20:54:02

Spoonwood
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Registered: 2019-02-06
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Do Permanently Homesick Women Contribute as Much as OHOL Mothers?

One would think that a female character that left their fertility zone before 14, and never went back to it, didn't contribute to the future of the family.  At least as a general rule, since there may exist some exceptions if such a player got resources out of band and brought valuable enough resources back to other members of their family.  In contrast, does there exist any reason to doubt that a player who births children and raises them does contribute to the future of that family?  At least for one generation, one would think the answer a definite 'no'.  Even in the worst case where their only child goes on and griefs a family, the mother made some contribution to the family's future by having that child and raising it.  The author thinks it fair to say that in terms of their contributions, the homesick woman is not equal to the mother.

Now, consider two people of the sex who engage in a civil contract.  Those two people cannot reproduce with each other.  So, they cannot contribute to the future of their family by producing a child, bearing a child, and also raising that same child once out of a womb.  In contrast, consider two people of the opposite sex with both of them are fertile, who get married.  In the scope of that marriage it does come as possible for them to have a child with their partner, one of them to bear the child in a womb and the other person to support the person who bears the child, and for them to raise the child out of the womb.  The child also has the possibility of having gratitude towards his or her parents for his or her existence.  The child also has the possibility of having gratitude for his or her parents marriage also, since it could have had something to do with his or her existence.

The author thinks it absurd to believe that the contributions of two people of the same sex engaged in a civil contract will usually be equal to the contributions of two married parents who have a child with their partner and raise it.  One would have to find extremely exceptional members of the same sex for them to even have a possibility of them contributing to the future of humanity as much as two married parents who have a child and raise it.

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#2 Today 04:02:07

Marquis
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Registered: 2022-06-16
Posts: 73

Re: Do Permanently Homesick Women Contribute as Much as OHOL Mothers?

Are you really trying to use game mechanics to support a value judgement on real people?

Why?

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#3 Today 05:20:08

QuirkySmirkyIan
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From: New Jersey, United States
Registered: 2018-07-06
Posts: 319

Re: Do Permanently Homesick Women Contribute as Much as OHOL Mothers?

Well what even is the goal of One Hour One Life? Lately keeping your family alive for as long as possible doesn't seem to be something many players care about. Only caring about helping your family in your current life sure. I think people look too greatly at the smaller picture and don't focus on keeping a family alive for a long time. When focusing on the small picture being a mother is one of the most important things you can do to contribute. However, in the big picture having 10 fertile women at once doesn't really make any difference than having 3 fertiles at once as any dedicated player will just choose to respawn to the family. You will want some fertile females for backup in case they die before 40, but that happens pretty rarely nowdays. Resources basically don't get exhausted anymore as long as you have a few veteran players who can play a few lives here and there. IMO the point of video games is to have fun and if you want to go leave town to do something else in the game as a fertile while there are a few other fertiles in town I see no real issue with that. If anything, if that player eventually returns it would be good to send fertiles out of town to make griefer attacks harder.


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