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I think it’s safe to assume any highly evolved alien species will have moral constructs that support self-preservation. Whether those morals extend to preservi
by fairity 5y ago
I think it’s safe to assume any highly evolved alien species will have moral constructs that support self-preservation.
Whether those morals extend to preserving other intelligent life forms (I.e. humans) seems unlikely since the prosperity of other life forms will inevitably lead to more competition for scarce resources.
The fact that human moral constructs apply to other intelligent species seems to be a bug that arises solely from the fact that we’re currently capable of out competing all other intelligent species.
- WitCanStain 5y agoThis assumes that the hypothetical aliens draw (ultimately artificial and arbitrary) distinctions between themselves and other intelligent species. Who knows, they might consider us, another intelligent species, to be 'one of them' in some sense and thus deserving of protection.
- namarie 5y agoWhat exactly is a "scarce resource" on a galactic scale? I'd think there isn't one.
- avaldes 5y agoHabitable planets with the exact chemistry to support your species without expensive or slow terraforming.
- jessaustin 5y agoThose could be scarce on a solar scale, but probably not on a galactic one.
- namarie 5y ago1) Not really scarce on a galactic scale and 2) if different species' chemistry are radically different (and why wouldn't they be?) there wouldn't be competition even if habitable planets were scarce.