RE: What do you think about aliens?
May 2, 2019 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2019 at 7:58 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(May 2, 2019 at 10:29 am)GGG Wrote: Why many of us believe that aliens is hostile? i think that stupid (like Star Wars and Star trek idea of high-tech civilisations still fighting like angry monkeys). We just project our own primitive mindset on what we think high-tech civilisations (who left behind millions years of tech evolution, instead of ours few thousand). We become less and less violent, less wars, more politicaly correct with years tech evolution passed. Now imagine highly intellectual aliens who just wanna kill us for fun. Its same like nobel prize laureates who likes kill people for fun after work in the lab. Ridiculous.
I think they exist of course (look up fo billions of stars and exoplanets), but if the even invent fast way of travel - they dont wanna visit our primitive world with religious wars, they dont want to disrupt our evolution. We need to evolve for them.
Pretty optimistic. The argument goes the other way too, though. Creatures that evolve intelligence/cunning are often predators. Even dolphins are cruel and violent from the point of view of their prey. Have you seen how we treat chickens and cattle? Are there any other "less intelligent" species that arange murder on such a scale as we? Also consider the depths of human cruelty. What guarantees that an alien species wouldn't treat us that way if it served their purposes.
And Star Trek isn't really about space and aliens. It's about human struggles; aliens and starships are just storytelling devices.
