Editing Generation ship (section)

==Ethical considerations==
The success of a generation ship depends on children born aboard taking over the necessary duties, as well as having children themselves. Even if their quality of life might be better than, for example, that of people born into poverty on Earth, philosophy professor Neil Levy has raised the question of whether it is ethical to severely constrain life choices of individuals by locking them into a project they did not choose.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aeon.co/ideas/would-it-be-immoral-to-send-out-a-generation-starship|title=Would it be immoral to send out a generation starship?|last=Levy|first=Neil|date=13 June 2016|work=[[Aeon (digital magazine)|Aeon]]|access-date=26 June 2019}}</ref> A moral quandary exists regarding how intermediate generations, those destined to be born and die in transit without actually seeing tangible results of their efforts, might feel about their forced existence on such a ship.