(October 11, 2016 at 12:12 am)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote:(October 11, 2016 at 12:01 am)vorlon13 Wrote: The greater number of civilizations you imagine existing in the galaxy, the greater the odds of one or more of them being VERY Darwinian and very gung ho on the idea they are the fittest and they want to survive by filling all the niches in the galaxy.
That's how lifeforms usually work. Aggressors win the petri dish, peacniks get eaten.
And at a certain level of technology, the galaxy itself starts to look like a petri dish . . .
That seems rather unfortunate. I wonder if this behavior is what ultimately keeps us in the petri dish, rather than growing beyond it (whatever that might be)?
As much as I hate the phrase, it is what it is.
There's no way of telling what an alien civilization might hold as values. Even in the context of species, we humans still look through our own two eyes. Through that filter, natural selection seems regnant, and our place at "the top of the heap" seems natural.
But who knows?
