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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 49 points 10 months ago

Yeah I am not voting.

If they were really a benevolent species, they wouldn't play this mind game to begin with.

[-] Varan1@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

They sound Abrahamic as fuck

[-] gearheart@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This says more about humanity than the aliens.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don't want to deal with a species that won't purge at least one race.

It's unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don't kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don't torture criminals for sport...

An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't they?

Maybe shit like that is the kind of wake up call our species would need to finally get us on the path to a post-race society.

Maybe they know we need a bit of a nudge and they decided they'd be the one to give it to us.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Look if Covid-19 wasn't an effective enough wake up call, I don't think anything will be.

Pretty sure this is just going to start off a race war

[-] phx@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There'd be a 180° and people would start claiming that the political leaders were controlling the aliens rather than the other way around

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