RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 4:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 8, 2012 at 4:02 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: It would be arrogant of them to decide our fate.
Perhaps their approach would be more like "It would be stupid for us not to decide their fate while we can".
Keep in mind all of our conceptions of social attitudes like arrogance, confidence, morality, expedience, etc are likely all the result of specific perception adaptations to the particular types of societies as primates and apes we evolved through.
They may have came to technological sophistication along an entirely different social and behavioral path, and have no conception, or even the ability to conceive, of notions like arrogance, morality, charity etc.
Their sole determination might be "we are likely better off if they are exterminated".
