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May 12th, 2009 - 12:39 am
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"Secondly, one sperm over, and I might have been a man, I might have been a slightly different woman, but I would not have been my sibling, because my sister is two and a half years older than I am, and a slight sperm difference is not going to turn me into her."
Whoops, on this one she's right. One sperm over and you don't exist, some other person is born in your place. Of course, this is your sister or brother (or would be if you existed, which at this AU point you don't). Bujold isn't referring to your actual sister (the one two and a half years older than you are), but to one of the several million of your siblings who never existed specifically because you do.
Having said that . . . I don't think this example supports her point. We exist. Us, not our millions of AU siblings. This reality is the one we're living in, no matter how well or ill speculations on other realities serve us.
And when they serve us (and/or our neighbors) ill? The problem exists, and we exist.
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