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Ever played Stellaris?
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no, I haven't
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The game is a grand strategy game set in space, and it let's you do some horrific stuff. It let's you set the rights of every species in your empire, and one of the options is "undesirables", which means they are going to be the victims of genocide. The game even let's you pick what method of genocide you prefer. There's extermination, where they are hunted down by extermination squads and presumably shot on the spot. Then there's forced labor, where they are worked to death. You can also turn them into food, energy if you're a machine intelligence, or paperclips, if you're that kind of machine intelligence. If you prefer a softer approach, you can forcibly sterilize them, so that they die out. Alternatively, you can displace them.
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Have you seen their probes? Goals
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To be fair, taking away our universal free healthcare would be extremely bad. It's a lifesaver, literally.
Take my father, for example. He got hurt recently and has needed many scans, tests, pills, meetings with Doctors, more tests, etc to get better. Imagine if we had to pay for that?!
I don't want to fight aliens, but if they tried to take that away I think we'd have to fight.
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See your mistake in reading this meme was being from not-America.
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What if they're here to lick buttholes
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Okay, let them land.
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no like imagine what we do to the cattle. Yeah we would be them instead.
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Yeah. This is really the most terrifying version of aliens. Not ones that want to take over the world in a grand dramatic fashion. Instead, I find truly indifferent aliens to be far more terrifying of a concept. We are literally animals to them. Or, more they view us as we view other animals.
Imagine being abducted by aliens. Instead of showing you the universe or trying to communicate with you, they don't even bother. They just proceed to vivisect you. They dissect you alive, without any anesthetic. They only give you a paralytic to keep your from screaming or resisting. They're doing the equivalent of wild animal research and they're simply indifferent to your suffering. You are not a person to them. Your pain means nothing. Your family will never know what happened to you, and the aliens don't even bother trying to justify their actions to you. They make no attempt at communication. They slowly take you apart piece by piece, silently going about their work. You'll never know who they are, where they're from, or why they're doing this. They do not owe you an explanation. To them you are no different than a plant.
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This thought experiment is perfect to rethink our moral values. We wouldn't agree that it's morally right to do that to us, just because aliens would be much smarter. But that's how most people justify how badly we treat farm animals
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I don't care if I get called out and hated for it, but I wish the aliens do come about and exterminate humanity and this is my longest standing prayer. I will even be the first in line as a sacrifice if it means all the bad humans get it.
We share this planet with other living beings god damn, but all we do is exploit everything and everyone. Not even different species, fuck no, we even do it to our own. Fuck yeah I am a xenophobe, I don't believe humans are altruist, we are selfish scum.
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What could possibly get worse?
Oh sweet summer child...
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I bet you have so much karma on reddit.
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Idk how much is "much" but I was way less active on there than I am here. Just the handful of top posts I've made in the fediverse on this account already surpass 8 years I frequented reddit.
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be nice
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you too
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Ye Wenjie Rule
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