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Post by Wes Gear on Dec 4, 2009 0:50:59 GMT 10
syfy channel had one of its cheesy b movies playing last night about a race of aliens who come here to extract from humans a cure for a virus that was killing off their kind. of course by doing this humans died in the process.
we like to think its only evil aliens that would do this but here is the question.......
suppose humans were a dying race. we have found a planet of beings that are intelligent but less advanced technologically and these aliens hold the cure for our ills at the expense of their own lives.
would you back a plan for us to extract this cure by force? remember without it humans will cease to exist. all around you people are dying........even loved ones. try and answer it as you would if it was really happening and not some heroic stand against the evils of such an act. the planet if far off and you will never have any contact with this race except what expeditions tell us about them.
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Post by concrete on Dec 4, 2009 1:44:50 GMT 10
This is a good moral question. It really is a hard call. Moraly, I couldn't do it. Not sure I could kill one to perpetrate the other. Even though I'm quite willing to kill an animal to feed a family. But, only a family nothing more.
Physicaly, my DNA dictates that I should help it replicate. In doing this, I need to breed and keep my family alive.
So, bare bones? If down to it and no other option was open. If I could kill them to save both myself and my family. It's not even a question. They will not walk any planet after I set eyes on them.
Good question. Because we don't even need to look at other planets for this scenario. We rape the oceans and the rainforests for answers on saving ourselves. Are we our own destruction?
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Post by seahawk100 on Dec 4, 2009 1:46:54 GMT 10
I have to say without question that I would go through with it. If it was between my loved ones and another race that I didn't care at all about, I would def look after the welfare of my family- first consideration and last.
I know it's not ethical, but I couldn''t do anything but that. At the same time though, I wouldn't , or rather couldn't blame them for doing the same to us- not if I were being honest to myself. That's not to say that I wouldn't fight them to the death if they tried it, but intellectually, I couldn't blame them.
It is an interesting question.
Cheers, Drex!
Hawk
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Post by brillbilly on Dec 4, 2009 1:49:35 GMT 10
good question,i think i would back the plan if that race was less advanced as us but what if that race was on par with us,what if both had something that the other needed for survival.one day humans will have to find another home as our world doesn't have an infinite life,this could have happened on other worlds with that civilization moving on through the universe,maybe that what happened in the very distant past.A race came here and created us as some sort of work force ;D
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Post by Wes Gear on Dec 4, 2009 1:58:38 GMT 10
i think all of you have answered honestly and i appreciate that.
even if we opposed doing it it would be done anyway. the only option for advocacy we would have left would be to turn down the cure after the fact. of course if by doing so we would be putting mankind in danger of another outbreak we might just find ourselves being culled for our effort.
concrete you pose a even more perplexing question about our endeavors right here on earth. everything we do seems to be extremely short sighted. we destroy yesterday to make today comfortable but never worry about tomorrow. i do believe we are our own destruction and i've yet to see anything to make me believe that is going to change any time soon.
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Post by concrete on Dec 4, 2009 2:07:48 GMT 10
I try.
It's just something to think about while you lay in bed, wide awake, begging for those few hours of shuteye.
At least, thats what I do.
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Post by blacky on Dec 4, 2009 4:08:00 GMT 10
depends. can we get it out of a few and then make a synthetic version??? if not then I wuld have to say use them for our needs!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2009 6:57:49 GMT 10
Moral objections aside I think it would be done regardless of what we would say. Would I refuse the cure on moral grounds, no, probably not, could I begrudge aliens doing the same to us, probably not, would I fight to survive, I think we all would.
The other point regarding us doing this already to nature. We have and continue to rape this planet of every natural resource, mineral and animal, I fully believe that our future is, in the end doomed. Increased population and the need for food and resources will eventually destroy us all. One day soon there will be no animals left we do not farm, there will be no fish in the ocean, just farmed seafood, and when thats not enough anymore we are fucked.
Soylent Green is a glimpse of that overcrowded depressing future.
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Post by Wes Gear on Dec 4, 2009 10:40:56 GMT 10
we're a cheerful bunch aren't we?
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Post by dboyseeker on Dec 4, 2009 10:48:03 GMT 10
I'd have one in a headlock in no time atal.... "extract, Extract" I'd even consider seeing how they taste too...slith! Recipe.. If it were my loved ones I'd offer myself first, and if im no good, then as I say .....
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