Aliens may exist

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Not to mention justifying the killing & eating of "lesser" species because they do not possess all our capabilities.

Not true, I do it because they are delicious.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by goof2

Not true, I do it because they are delicious.

so true

[Homeslice]

I eat them too, just saying how it's funny how we think we're so superior and that it would be so wrong for us to be killed by a more advanced race. Like as if just because we have thoughts and emotions, it would be unethical for aliens to kill us.

What if they possess something beyond thoughts and emotions that we lack, and therefore they see nothing wrong with killing us, just like we see nothing wrong with killing animals?

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

What if they possess something beyond thoughts and emotions that we lack, and therefore they see nothing wrong with killing us, just like we see nothing wrong with killing animals?

All that really matters is how well they can argue their case on the internet.
If they can make it sound logical enough and cite sufficient references, we'll probably just let them eat us.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

I eat them too, just saying how it's funny how we think we're so superior and that it would be so wrong for us to be killed by a more advanced race. Like as if just because we have thoughts and emotions, it would be unethical for aliens to kill us.

What if they possess something beyond thoughts and emotions that we lack, and therefore they see nothing wrong with killing us, just like we see nothing wrong with killing animals?

I think you are right and that's what Hawking was getting after, but the stupid hippies think they would be evolved enough to not want to take our shit. I am sure there are cultures that might not destroy us, but I am also sure that there are some that wouldn't think twice about eradicating us to take our planet.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

I eat them too, just saying how it's funny how we think we're so superior and that it would be so wrong for us to be killed by a more advanced race. Like as if just because we have thoughts and emotions, it would be unethical for aliens to kill us.

What if they possess something beyond thoughts and emotions that we lack, and therefore they see nothing wrong with killing us, just like we see nothing wrong with killing animals?

i have no issues with their hypothetical harvesting of humans as foodstuffs just like have no issues with hypothetically giving them nuclear suntans in response.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100425/sc_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking

I love all the hippy comments assured that if Aliens could travel this far, they would be peaceful because they are so smart.

I don't think that they'd be peaceful necessarily, so much as just disinterested. Why would they even bother with us, in any way, when a true spacefaring race would be able to get everything that they needed from gas giants and the Oort Cloud? Why even waste the resources to drop into a gravity well at all, if you don't need to?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I don't think that they'd be peaceful necessarily, so much as just disinterested. Why would they even bother with us, in any way, when a true spacefaring race would be able to get everything that they needed from gas giants and the Oort Cloud? Why even waste the resources to drop into a gravity well at all, if you don't need to?

Food? Shear boredom? Slave labor?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

Food? Shear boredom? Slave labor?

Unnecessary. Possibly. Unnecessary.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Unnecessary. Possibly. Unnecessary.

Come to hunt us to see if we are most dangerous game?