• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we’re a tribe based war loving species, but if it’s simply because we’re so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      nah, people work with deep sea creatures all day and just find them cool.

      it’d just make international relations with them extremely difficult, honestly district 9 is probably the most realistic take on how we’d treat aliens. We’d be sufficiently unable to empathize with them that we’d treat them like shit, but there’s no real reason to actively try to wipe them out.