Ethical Problems

It would not be unfair to conclude that Infinity and
Centrum regard outtimers – as a group, if not as indi-
viduals – as something less than “real” people with
human rights. Infinity’s PR department does its best to
downplay this perception, but every time the I-Cops
cart some outtimer off to Coventry, they send the mes-
sage that Homeline is somehow “superior.” And every
time a filmmaker creates a historical epic by recording
the bloody deaths of thousands of people in an outtime
war, he reinforces the idea that the residents of other
timelines are puppets for Homeline’s entertainment.
But there’s a great deal of wealth to be
had . . . and greedy miners have secret-
ly raped several habitable timelines.