Mind's Eye Re: Aliens, Slavery and Resources

I agree. Extra terrestrial visitors to earth would not be comparable to us. They would have different values and morals. They would find all life sacred and would respect it, no matter how depraved or primitive. Perhaps they were the ones who seeded earth in the first place. They would probably recognize our weaknesses and would let us either survive to our next stage or let us destroy ourselves.  

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:19:42 PM UTC+2, William L. Houts William L. Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote:

All right, I just wanted to run this by you guys.  I know it seems I'm
always rattlling on about aliens, but they're really a stand in for,
well, for a lot of things.  Anyway, I've been on Facebook and recently
made a status report commenting on the conversation we had going on here
about hypothetical aliens and what they might or might not want from
us.  And I was making the point that I made here: that said aliens will
turn out to be just as befuddled by it all as we are, and are probably
in no position to give us the goods on life's mysteries, or even make a
good cocktail.

Now, my friend Matt, who is very smart but also very bitchy, put forth
Professor Hawking's notion:  that we'd better keep our heads down low,
because history tells us that when a more technologically advanced
species meets a less developed one, the results are usually horrible for
the latter.  I replied that yes, this does seem to be the pattern in
Earth history.  But, I went on, races which manage to break the
lightspeed barrier are going to have better things to do than enslave 7
billion people, or even mistreat them very much. Their energy problems,
I said more or less, will have been solved to such an extent that they
won't have to vampirize us.  Matt made it clear that he thought I was
being terrifically naive.

Now, Mat is quickly becoming a sour old queen, but I want to know: with
whom would you agree?  Or is there a third answer which I haven't
proposed here?


--Bill



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