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Would O'Neil cylinders be more vulnerable to authoritarianism and genocide?
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I've heard the argument that because resources are scarce and oxygen can be cut off, O'Neil cylinders would tend to fall under dictatorships or just be eliminated in "oxygenocides", making dyson swarms unwise and keeping planets as the main centers of civilization.

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Find me an oxygen rich Exoplanet with terrestrial conditions and plant life and we can entertain this hypothetical.

Otherwise the sole difference is whether your hab is at the bottom of a gravity well or not.

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Very true. The calculations for comparatively high precision strikes with exactly the amount of fallout desired aren't exactly trivial but anyone you'd allow to fly a spaceship around could likely do it with a ruler and a pen.

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