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From: rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: protector psychology
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From: rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

Rob Austein's response doesn't work, because Brennan didn't worry
about his bloodline either and he got the original tree-of-life.

What Niven also didn't cover in Ringworld Engineers was that not
saving the Ringworld would be the same as killing 3E13 hominids more
surely than using the meteor defense to save the ringworld -- people
might survivie the radiation, but wouldn't possibly survive the sun
(or shadow squares, or whatever).

So I suppose the canonical answer of poetic license is it.

PS  Why didn't the library on Pak have any reference to the ringworld
being built?  It did have the reference to the expedition to Earth,
which was much smaller.

Robert^Z