What gives the Federation the right to decide that Younglings aren mature enough to join, or even to visit Federation worlds as individuals? Isn this rather high-handed?
It’s not an arbitrary judgment. My fictional premise is that a species is accepted into the Federation when it has reached the stage where psychic abilities such as psychokinesis are commonly and safely used by its normal members, who can therefore mingle freely with others without posing a threat to anyone or finding themselves at a disadvantage. Of course, I don’t pretend to know whether this is what happens in the real universe. The psychic powers I’ve depicted in the stories are symbols of advanced abilities we can’t yet even imagine.
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