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Contrarily, I think that any civilization capable of reaching Earth must also exhibit the most humane (aliene?) characteristics such as love for justice and res
by quan 16y ago
Contrarily, I think that any civilization capable of reaching Earth must also exhibit the most humane (aliene?) characteristics such as love for justice and respect for other lives. I'd imagine with their great power, every individual in their planet can, with the flick of a finger, wipe out a large portion of their own race if not entirely. They must have learned to coexist or face self destruction. It's a prerequisite to freely roam the universe.
What about killing for their own survival, after all respect for the lives of one's own race doesn't translate to respect for lives of others. This may be true, but with their intelligence I'd think they're smart and reasonable enough to explore other possibilities. I don't think aliens in soon-to-be-out-of-resources ships desperately flying around the universe for energy is a scenario advanced intelligent life forms planned for. It's more likely that they accept a peaceful conclusion to their existence.
Of course, it's very possible that we're all wrong since we're projecting our own primitive reasoning on species that are a lot more evolved.
- jheriko 16y agoWhy would you think that? I just can't see any basis for such an argument beside massively wishful guesswork... "Of course, it's very possible that we're all wrong since we're projecting our own primitive reasoning on species that are a lot more evolved." I completely agree with this though - you can't reasonably guess the consequences of future intelligence until you actually have it. Also, who said intelligence is on a single scale? There could be multiple types of advanced intelligence, each with their own chain of development.
- jamii 16y agoYou don't have to be nice to others to survive as a species, you just have to avoid genociding your own. Humans have managed not to nuke each other yet but we are mostly a predatory species and, with a few exceptions, have very little respect for non-human life. This theoretical advanced civilization might just see us as pests and accord us the same level of justice that we do to cockroaches.
- borism 16y agorespect for intelligent life actually might be beneficial (just a side note: my belief is that not only humans are cognitive beings, so my respect applies to all life, but that's a bit offtopic, altough might be present in aliens as well)
- stcredzero 16y agoWho is to say we don't fall below the alien's lower threshold of respect-worthy intelligence?
- bemmu 16y agoOr perhaps a million years ago in their history, a sense of individualism completely disappeared as they joined into a single superintelligent creature. Totally xenophobic and without tolerance for anything that might threaten it :)
- donw 16y agoEXTERMINATE!
- narag 16y agoThe projection thing has been fueled by all the literature that was produced during wars, that is the entire human history. What to say about books or TV shows created during the cold war? War is idiotic. Bringing war through incommensurably immense voids is nonsense. The only reason we can't see it is that we're used to rationalize the sad fact that we are too primitive to stop it.