Scrapyard Station: Minorities
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feotakahariTinkers with cybernetics don’t generally think of themselves as disabled, because Tinkers in general don’t think about “disabled” as a category.
You have something missing, and you replace it, better than it was before. If you don’t replace it, you’re probably one of those Pure nutjobs who think cybernetics are evil. Tinkers might be intellectually aware of things like hemophilia, but they’re used to the idea that those things are patched before birth. (Most Tinkers aren’t familiar with the word “eugenics,” either.)
Some people join the Pure because only the Pure will let them exist and be disabled. Others find the Pure don’t welcome them either.
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Most the Pure are Christian-derived, and while they’re rational and scientific, it’s a very Christian brand of science. They use rituals and prayers the way a Tinker uses scientific formulas, keeping what works and discarding what doesn’t. (And when you’re Pure, a lot of things work that wouldn’t do anything if you were a Tinker.) But the flipside of this is that there are things they don’t bother studying because they’re too obvious to test. There are men, and there are women, and men love women, and women love men. If you don’t fit this template, you don’t exist, and if you insist on existing anyway, you’re an aberration to be removed.
When a Purist truly understands that there are things that exist whether or not the Pure believe in them, their rituals fail along with their faith. They’re a Tinker now, and Tinkers cannot live amongst the Pure. But if they flee to other Tinkers, they’re at the mercy of their genetic background. A background that might include hemophilia, for instance.
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Nomads don’t know or care what gender is. Scholars are effectively bigender by nature. Neither of them have much compatibility with cybernetics, and both of them are known for befriending outsiders.
Tinkers have a reputation for marrying outside their species, and Pure aren’t always as hostile as their reputation indicates. Traditionalist Tinkers and Pure think poorly of these “alien-lovers.” Why would anyone identify more with nonhumans than with their own kind? The answer, however, is often unfortunately simple: they were never treated like humans in the first place.
You have something missing, and you replace it, better than it was before. If you don’t replace it, you’re probably one of those Pure nutjobs who think cybernetics are evil. Tinkers might be intellectually aware of things like hemophilia, but they’re used to the idea that those things are patched before birth. (Most Tinkers aren’t familiar with the word “eugenics,” either.)
Some people join the Pure because only the Pure will let them exist and be disabled. Others find the Pure don’t welcome them either.
—
Most the Pure are Christian-derived, and while they’re rational and scientific, it’s a very Christian brand of science. They use rituals and prayers the way a Tinker uses scientific formulas, keeping what works and discarding what doesn’t. (And when you’re Pure, a lot of things work that wouldn’t do anything if you were a Tinker.) But the flipside of this is that there are things they don’t bother studying because they’re too obvious to test. There are men, and there are women, and men love women, and women love men. If you don’t fit this template, you don’t exist, and if you insist on existing anyway, you’re an aberration to be removed.
When a Purist truly understands that there are things that exist whether or not the Pure believe in them, their rituals fail along with their faith. They’re a Tinker now, and Tinkers cannot live amongst the Pure. But if they flee to other Tinkers, they’re at the mercy of their genetic background. A background that might include hemophilia, for instance.
—
Nomads don’t know or care what gender is. Scholars are effectively bigender by nature. Neither of them have much compatibility with cybernetics, and both of them are known for befriending outsiders.
Tinkers have a reputation for marrying outside their species, and Pure aren’t always as hostile as their reputation indicates. Traditionalist Tinkers and Pure think poorly of these “alien-lovers.” Why would anyone identify more with nonhumans than with their own kind? The answer, however, is often unfortunately simple: they were never treated like humans in the first place.
