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user-inactivated  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the ethics of alien contact?

I would like to hope that any species that has their act together enough to be able to commit to interstellar travel would be mature enough socially to not behave poorly towards other species.





MisterMentat  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The same was probably hoped for intercontinental naval travel.

user-inactivated  ·  3239 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure. However, interstellar travel is a completely different scale. Unless some species stumbles on some kind of holy grail of technology that makes it ridiculously easy, the amount of effort, time, and resources required to achieve such a feat in and of itself is probably a sign of social maturity.