Rikkitic:
MikeAqua:
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We don't want to be colonised by a technologically superior culture. Ask any indigenous people on earth.
Being human we anthropomorphise everything. We assume a technologically superior civilisation would treat us the way we treat our own indigenous people. Why should it? Just because we are jerks doesn't mean everyone else is.
One argument is a species that evolved its way to the top of the heap on their planet, is probably just as competitive and aggressive as we are.
But alternately guess superior ethics could result from superior knowledge and technology as well. We are slowly developing some as a species.
How would humans treat a new planet I wonder?
If we were settling on a new planet with an existing ecosystem, where the most intelligent life was about as intelligent as chimpanzees ....
What would we do differently?