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As soon as Europeans got big boats they ended up commiting genocide on everyone they encountered, so there's certainly reason to fear aliens behaving similarly.
by marricks 4y ago
As soon as Europeans got big boats they ended up commiting genocide on everyone they encountered, so there's certainly reason to fear aliens behaving similarly.
That said, it seems reasonable to expect any civilization that gets interplanetary technology would also develop ICBM's along the way if they wanted.
Perhaps a certain amount of cooperation and kindness could be expected by anyone who makes it out into deep space. There's good reason to hope they'd be kinder than us I think.
- pixl97 4y agoYou have it backwards. When you develop interplanetary travel, you by default have a weapon. Making any significant mass move through space fast can take a nuclear weapons worth of energy (honestly far more), if you lithobrake in the far side, that's going to be a massive explosion.
- jotm 4y agoNot really, they enslaved anyone they could and stole their resources. Murder only happened when the locals were in the way.
- InitialLastName 4y agoYou'll have to excuse me if it's hard for me to tell the difference between "a) enslave everyone, b) separate the men and the women, c) make the men mine metals with a ~1 year life expectancy, d) make the women work the sugarcane fields also with a ~1 year life expectancy, e) when you need more, take them from somewhere else" and a genocide.