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Machines which expand through the galaxy treating biological life as a nuisance to be destroyed are not the legacy I’d like us to leave behind. In fact, I’d say

• autoexec 4y ago
  > Machines which expand through the galaxy treating biological life as a nuisance to be destroyed are not the legacy I’d like us to leave behind. Everything humanity has ever built came at the expense of countless biological lifeforms we considered to be a nuisance if they were even considered at all. With very little exception there's no use of land, however trivial, that would be prevented because of its impact on non-human biological life. The few lifeforms that are excepted are mostly ones that have already been driven to the brink of extinction, and in my country nearly half the population votes for politicians who feel even that goes too far and that the government should have no right to tell landowners what they can't do with their property no matter what kind of owl or salamander or tree or fungus was there first. The legacy we've left behind isn't looking much better. If machines reach a point where we're no more complex to them than plants or insects are to us I'd still like them to give us some consideration, but I doubt we could expect it