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There is something terribly wrong with a species who, in the infancy of their space travel, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of making war
by zelienople 6y ago
There is something terribly wrong with a species who, in the infancy of their space travel, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of making war in space.
- mclightning 6y agoin comparison to which other species?
- filoeleven 6y agoThe Daleks. They spend no time at all considering war, they just get on with it.
- HelloNurse 6y agoA species that, in the mature age of their warfare, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of extending war to a new location.
- dustingetz 6y agoacting in an inexploitable way is a nash equilibrium or do we think the aliens don’t understand game theory or evolved without a survival instinct?
- ddxxdd 6y agoTo make peace you must prepare for war. Also, it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
- kybernetikos 6y agoFor a particular definition of 'better' that probably involves survival but not ethics.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoLiterally anything in space almost by definition is a weapon. Blame physics.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoThe history of progress is largely the history of warfare. War pushed technological development and pushed state formation in the direction of ever larger ever more centralized states.