Crianças no jogo de Ender

Embora a resposta aceita fosse de certa forma correta (uma das duas razões era de fato o fato de você poder "enganar" uma criança a pensar que estava jogando um jogo, para que eles pudessem fazer os sacrifícios táticos necessários sem preocupando-se com a perda de homens que eles comandam e não carregam o fardo psicológico de "e se perdermos"), essa não foi a única razão, e possivelmente nem mesmo a principal.

A razão foi articulada por Graff antes mesmo de Ender nascer, na colecção das Primeiras Reuniões , em The Polish Boy , quando explicou porque não se importava que ele fosse John Paul Wieczorek (que mais tarde conheceríamos como John Wiggin, o pai de Ender) na Battle School: foi porque a pesquisa deles sugeriu que as crianças pré-adultas eram melhores comandantes do que os adultos . p>

"There is a definite fall-off in outcomes after the trainees reach adulthood," said Graff. "That's a fact, however much we may not like the implications."

"They know more, but do worse?" said Chamrajnagar. "It sounds wrong. It is hard to believe, and even if we believe it, it is hard to interpret."

... e mais adiante, Graff expande:

"You're forgetting the research we've been conducting. It may not be final in some technical scientific sense, but it's already conclusive. People reach their peak ability as military commanders much earlier than we thought. Most of them in their late teens. The same age when poets do their most passionate and revolutionary work. And mathematicians. They peak, and then it falls off. They coast on what they learned back when they were still young enough to learn. We know within a window of about five years when we have to have our commander. John Paul Wieczorek will already be too old when that window opens. Past his peak."

Spoilers para Ender's Game abaixo.

Because they probably can't fool teenagers or adults for long enough for them to destroy the buggers while believing that it's all still a simulated war game. And if they know it's real, then they will break under the pressure, and possibly also start to worry about committing genocide.

Como não estou familiarizado com nenhuma resposta oficial a isso, darei outra hipótese.

The initial ships were launched years before the start of the book, around the time of the previous war ending. They were likely populated with adults who fought in that war. Thanks to time dilation, they do not age significantly, and are still capable of fighting upon reaching the buggers' world, though it's not clear if they can come back.

For those left on earth, there would be quite a wait, so it made sense to start training children in the hope that the right commander would come along. If that was to happen, they could then "preserve" the child(ren) using relativistic trips.

My impression reading the book was that the battle school system had been going on for a long time, but that the right candidate has not been found / engineered to that point, making Ender and his friends "the last hope" as the fleet was getting close to the bugger homeworld, thus the rush to advance the training.

Vou adicionar à resposta "aceita". A necessidade de treinamento infantil era dupla:

"Deception" was needed to cater to the "empathetic genius". If you love the enemy so much that you can understand and know their moves before THEY do - kinda hard to kill them all dead without hesitation. THAT, IMHO, was the deciding factor on using genius children. Adults who know what they are doing will make different decisions when they have to look in mirror and know they just sent someone... someone's father, brother, mother, etc... to their death. They wouldn't be able to make the decisions that needed to be made - out of love for their brothers AND their enemies.

Also... add to the fact that training leads to graduation... graduation leads to captains and generals of the fleet. A glorified "West Point" academy that starts training at a younger age to further instill the needed qualities in the warriors that make the war machine.

A grande vantagem disso é que se você começar jovem e começar em zero-g, em vez de na Terra, eles serão capazes de formar novas estratégias que alguém que tenha estratégias formativas requeriam gravidade, e estavam razoavelmente próximos de dois. dimensional (veja também Jornada nas Estrelas: a Ira de Khan , onde Kirk derrotou Khan porque Khan não conseguia pensar em três dimensões).

eu pensei que era porque os reflexos das crianças são mais rápidos que os adultos, especialmente entre 10-13, 14 anos de idade & em um ambiente de videogame (I.E. controlando suas naves através da tela de vídeo na Terra) os Formacs estavam esmagando os humanos com seus reflexos rápidos, pelo menos é o que eu li.