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Sixty years is not a long time, and there's no reason to believe that this trend will continue forever.
by rsheridan6 14y ago
Sixty years is not a long time, and there's no reason to believe that this trend will continue forever.
- vacri 14y agoThere's also no reason to believe it won't, unless you're aiming for bias in the analysis.
- rsheridan6 14y agoI would not deny the possible that, for reasons I don't understand, any species advanced enough to be capable of interstellar travel behaves like a cross between Bono and Peter Singer. But I would not stake the survival of my species on it. And there is a reason to believe that they probably won't be - they will be the product of Darwinian evolution, just like us, which is really not a very nice thing.
- vacri 14y agoI completely agree on not staking the survival of the species on it, I just think that it's an overly cynical view. Same as I think most people are good people, but I still lock my car because a very few of them are thieves.