Debate: IdeoMotorPrisoner v. Putnam6 -

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

What's ridiculously myopic and paranoid to be afraid of discovery, after all, we are men(human), not mice. We do not burrow and hide from the cat, if our ancient ancestors did we would still be in caves howling at the moonlight and scared of thunder and lightning.

Aren't we still?

Paranoid is our genetic memory. In many ways we are not that far removed from howling at thunder still. It's within written history to when thunderstorms were still attributed to the gods. Not that far removed from another god to pull the sun across the sky.

While I'm not saying discovery is bad, or contact can't lead to benefit, I'm saying there may be wisdom in being LITERAL backwoods savages.



To them our intent is malevolent. They don't want to be documented by mechanical birds. They want the territorial threat countered.

But therein is a good example. Why do drones survey areas of the Amazon? Sometimes as precursor to eventually pave the rainforest in the tears of Joni Mitchell.

Typically, when the more advanced come across the less advanced, the latter exploit the former to some degree. Whether it being the removal of indigenous population or assimilation for selfish reasons. Like Manhattan for 23 dollars.

Carl always had the best perspective out of the dozens of scholarly quotes this one resonates as much as any of them.

Carl Sagan might have been an atheist but he couldn't have been more of a creampuff. I don't want to call him sappy, but... He was firmly wearing the rose colored glasses common from the 70s onward.

"The Next." The transhuman obsession. The future is civilized and crime free, because with advancement comes Buddha meditating under a tree apparently.

When did this happen? I must have missed it in all the warfare and exploitation.

To rip off a Stargate episode.

Advanced race offers technology, admission to their federation, an anti-aging vaccine, and galactic awareness.

Only problem was the vaccine was a sterilization drug meant to make over 90% infertile and convert Earth to farmland for the alliance.

Not to underscore natural human paranoia, buy how can we as a species be certain Klaus Schwab isn't an alien servant sterilizing people with MNRA vaccines and reducing Earth's population for alien farmland already?

It seems the crazier the conspiracy the more weight it has lately, and I don't think that's just paranoia.

Peoples morality is transitive. Germany in 1936 proved that. You can exalt complete desecration of character and have people believe it's moral.

Finally, I must insert a necessary component to my argument.

I think natural selection, survival of the most adaptable, IS the default form for life to evolve. All life may be from left-handed amino acids and mostly carbon-based?

It this regard, 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons might be a little too apt for biological life. They wouldn't have a conception of out numerology, but chances are they are equal in being a beast imprinted by hostile circumstances. And forced to change by obstacle.

Like pain is the universal norm.

If there's no adversity, then nothing needs to evolve. Which is why Alligators are the garbage disposals of mass extinction events and never need to move beyond eating the animals (alive or dead) that fall into the river.

Is it cowardly and dismissive of something truly in your best interest or something pragmatic?