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It is and was called imperialism and almost every nation and civilization has done it (not that it excuses it). Even optimistic Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek fu
by agentgt 11y ago
It is and was called imperialism and almost every nation and civilization has done it (not that it excuses it).
Even optimistic Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek future it continues on and is a topic (the prime directive).
What do you think happened to the neanderthals?
Survival instincts are just inherently nasty but we as humans should rise above these tendencies since we have the cognitive ability to do so.
I mean for god sake look how we treat and what we do to the animals that we eat. A hundred years from now it might be seen as a serious moral slip on our part. We might all be very bad people.
- golemotron 11y ago> Survival instincts are just inherently nasty but we as humans should rise above these tendencies since we have the cognitive ability to do so. Human nature is what it is. It has not changed in millennia, it's only sublimated by culture. Football is a substitute for war. Social media and Reality TV are a substitute for the 'gossip fence.' Gene Roddenberry had a transparently unrealistic model of humanity, and thank goodness. For many people it would boring beyond belief.
- evook 11y agoThe neanderthal genocid theory is a bit outdated. Actually they died because of an erruption below the phlegraean fields. Every human born in an area where neanderthals used to live is a far descendant of ybrids. Until today our dna is made of up to two percent of their dna. The mutations resulting in a low melanin levels and blue eyes are thought to be most likely inherited by neanderthals.
- tremon 11y agoA recent YC thread had an alternative explanation: the male offspring of S/N interbreeding may have been sterile. The 2% of DNA you mention is all inherited through the female line.