Comments on: Life in the Universe? http://www.damnedct.com/life-in-the-universe/ Hauntings, Legends, Weird Places, Weird News, Adandoned Places, Strange Animals, Investigations Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wojciehowicz http://www.damnedct.com/life-in-the-universe/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Wojciehowicz Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:06:08 +0000 http://www.damnedct.com/?p=3944#comment-975 We treat cows like we treat apples. Pick and chew. We treat them like they are here for no other purpose than to eat. Do we really expect a more evolved life form to do better? Why? Because we imagine in our guilty conscience that progression is always towards more noble or sympathetic mentalities? We went from killing buffalo by driving them off a cliff to processing cows on assembly lines of slaughter. Evolution has to do with survival, not culture. We became more efficient predators, better survivors. Anyone who can cross between the stars has no real reason to be any different. We just want to believe they do. I'm not saying I believe aliens are killing cows, just that we need to be careful in the ideas we assign postulated aliens based on our own condition. They might be more altruistic and so forth than us. Just as likely, not. We treat cows like we treat apples. Pick and chew. We treat them like they are here for no other purpose than to eat. Do we really expect a more evolved life form to do better? Why? Because we imagine in our guilty conscience that progression is always towards more noble or sympathetic mentalities? We went from killing buffalo by driving them off a cliff to processing cows on assembly lines of slaughter. Evolution has to do with survival, not culture. We became more efficient predators, better survivors. Anyone who can cross between the stars has no real reason to be any different. We just want to believe they do.

I’m not saying I believe aliens are killing cows, just that we need to be careful in the ideas we assign postulated aliens based on our own condition. They might be more altruistic and so forth than us. Just as likely, not.

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