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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)And I'm not interested in blame games or quilt trips, nor old testament. As far as I'm concerned you are free to go where ever you like, as long as you don't force others to organize your trip for you or travel with the purpose of harming others.
For me this discussion is about certain cultural behavior pattern, ecology and basic ethics. The pattern of population destroying the carrying capacity of ecosystem and then moving on to colonize and destroy other ecosystems, which it considers nothing but resources for it's own selfish greed and infinite growth. Not all populations and cultures behave in that way, which in any finite system is ultimately self-destructive. The reason I prefer not to unleash this "hegemonizing swarm", as it is called in some Science Fiction books, to Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy etc., is that we don't know if there are other forms of life with similar or higher technological capabilities and ability to treat planet Earth just as resource for their mania of infinite growth.
Simply, don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you.
Dial up Greys or whoever and get a hitch to somewhere else, if you are so desperate to escape and leave behind the mess your messianic ancestors and culture created and keep messing. But let's not be Vogons to the rest of Galaxy and hope that potential others are not Vogons to us.