User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20180902091449/@comment-4867780-20180906065850

As explained before, it's not that he "can't" in and of itself, it's that he can't "without altering their minds". There is precious little Lawrence actually cannot do, the restriction lies more into how he will pull it off, what he is and isn't willing to do on and on which ground.

I totally agree there are lots of benefits in having such an amazing being as father when he is as caring and competent as him, but sooner or later you would come to resent him for being so much more than you are, and grow increasingly bitter about it (look into your heart, you know it to be true). Evolutionary rivalry is indeed essentially absent from Selforge City, but only because citizens are complete equals both objectively and relationally, drying it up at the source. These primal traits are too deeply embedded in the natural order to magically evaporate just because of a status upgrade, and fiction does a good job at demonstrating how widespread and resilient this inclination would remain even in highly fantastic worlds.

As mentioned previously, there is no "change in psychology" aside from the eternity-friendly one I explained, that you simply cannot do without. Everything else is the natural product of a very different environment, and Selforge City is largely about just that : demonstrating that utopia is realistically possible without brainwashing anyone, provided you have enough power at your disposal and use it in a competent and responsible way. "With great power comes a great life", remember ? The line wasn't just about self-indulgence, but also about how to credibly turn the first into the later and durably solidify it on a large scale.

Inequality breeds resentment, that's just how the mind works. Take one look around, and you will see it everywhere. The only way to really fix it is through mental re-engineering, and doing that would simply nullify the whole point. Why create an utopia in the first place when you can just rewrite everyone into perfect happiness ? These are supposed to work with human nature, not remove it from the equation, it is this challenge that makes the concept so difficult and interesting. I understand your point and it does have merits, but at the end of the day it is self-invalidating - both in-universe and from a narrative perspective.

Brain chemistry is heavily influenced by our environment, possibly even more than any other physiological process, the vast majority of it happening without our even realizing it. We are all born with predisposition, but they are precisely just that : predispositions. What we eventually become depends mostly on our overall upbringing and personal experiences. Jail-time induced orientation change is a widely known phenomenon, and demonstrates how relative these things really are. If even traumatic interactions can change a person's sexual identity, imagine how true it would be in an incredibly caring and attractive context.

Selforge children are born without predispositions, and become who they are through experience alone, which in this case leads to overall bisexuality with a collective preference for the transcendent male lover they all have in common. Why ? Because awesomeness is by far the most attractive trait to female minds, and Lawrence is awesomeness personified.