It may be relevant that on reading some of your more science-fictiony proposed replacements, my thoughts were along the lines of “geez, I hope these take long enough to implement that I get to be a real mother before anyone expects me to find these facsimiles satisfactory”.
To be honest I feel the same way. But we’re talking about a fairly long period of cultural (not to mention biological) evolution before this becomes a problem, which is part of my point. The people of thousands of years in the future may well consider things that we today find almost too weird to contemplate, to be simply common sense.
It may be relevant that on reading some of your more science-fictiony proposed replacements, my thoughts were along the lines of “geez, I hope these take long enough to implement that I get to be a real mother before anyone expects me to find these facsimiles satisfactory”.
To be honest I feel the same way. But we’re talking about a fairly long period of cultural (not to mention biological) evolution before this becomes a problem, which is part of my point. The people of thousands of years in the future may well consider things that we today find almost too weird to contemplate, to be simply common sense.