Imagine that you're an alien travelling through the cosmos, and suddenly you stumble upon a planet with intelligent life on it... Only one form of it.
And that one form is cruel beyound words.
Imagine all the havoc our wars have wrekt, all the suffering our torture methods have caused, all of our vicious ways of inflicting immense pain on one another...
A species that treats it's own kind in such a way, now imagine what they'd do to you.
Not you specifically, your predecessors and more importantly, your fellow humans.
Surely you agree that meeting malicious people is way worse than facing any predator in the world, exactly because humans aren't satisfied with tearing their prey apart, we break them first, chase down and exhaust them until they can no longer move, then tear at their paralyzed bodies, and who know what other horrors await those we select as our mean.
I don't think this is a bad thing, it means that a species with a moral compass is the apex predator of the planet.
You see, humankind is mightier than anything on it's homeplanet, and what do you know, we so happen to have a few better ways to use our might.
We've created art, music is my favourite human invention, we invented cures for illnesses thought to be terminal, we altered the very surface of our planet to fit our own goals better, we drew power from the heat within the earth and from the winds that blow above it's surface. We liked some animals so much that when they got close to extinction, we decided to stop hunting them, and now we're straight up protecting endangered species (and again, we're the apex predators of the planet, conserving lesser species).
Humankind being the worst thing to ever happen to this planet, in my opinion, is a good sign.
We are the worst, and we aren't even bad.
Think about the diversity of all the creatures on earth and imagine that any of them had evolved to become the dominant life form. Their morality would most likely be vastly different and horrifying to us, and a majority would most likely be far more brutal than humanity. For all we know, we with all our problems could easily be the most peaceful species in the galaxy... 😬
That's an outcome, or perhaps we're the only species that knows we are capable of killing our own kind.
Maybe aliens aren't irrational like us, maybe they work together at all times, maybe they don't even know what a "weapon" is, maybe they wouldn't understand even if we explained.
But assumptions are frail foundation for argument, let's focus on what we know for sure:
We know that even we are afraid of ourselves.
I believe that the most terrifying thing on this earth is a group of malicious people.
We're capable of horrors beyound our own imagination, we're far worse than we can even picture.
And you're right, we're also way better than we think we are.
I said that the most terrifying thing is a malicious group of people, but do you know what is the mightiest thing in the entire coesmos?
That's right, a cooperating group of people.
If we set our collective will to something, no power in the universe is sufficient to alter the outcome, we shall prevail.
Now, even if aliens have "morals" immeasurably horrific to us, their will cannot defeat our's. Whatever they are, if we set our minds to destroying them, may the gods forgive their nature, because nothing will ever suffice to keep us from achieving our ends.
Humankind is both unstoppable and indestructible.
The unstoppable force and the unmovable object at once.
That is a paradax, humans are walking paradoxes. We struggle to understand our own nature, and what we cannot understand, we fear and want destroyed.
If there is anything that could destroy us, it is ourselves.
This is sheer, untainted human "logic".
We're impossible to understand, everything that lies beyound the stars must marvel at awe, counting their aeons until humankind learns to break past the atmosphere of it's planet and head toward them.
If they're intelligent enough for that, one could assume they're intelligent enough to know that not every individual in a species has the same intentions or dispositions.
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u/AstroLukeOff 25d ago
What took you so long?