• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that person is talking about their personal thoughts, but more mankind as a whole.

    As we operate now we would not have to tools to add anything meaningful to a galactic conversation.

    We could all personally think it’s awesome, but as a people we are simply unequipped to deal with the consequences of meeting an extraterrestrial race.

    People are sort of great individually, but collectively we’re horrific. We’d be trying to kill, enslave, or exploit any new species we came across. It’s what we do with new species. Hell it’s what we do to each other.