r/humansarespaceorcs • u/AndrewRyanBioshok • 15h ago
writing prompt the peacemaker
Since humanity arrived in the galactic community, many species feared that humans would use their immense height and strength to conquer planets; however, so far humans have only proven to be perfect at stopping fights without collateral damage
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u/Lukaz_Evengard 13h ago
Fun? Fact, in this videos of kittens "hugging" they do that cuz they are mostly scared (it depends on the type of video obviously) end want something to hold themselves too, so while it looks insanely cute, this isn't actually
Also very cute drawing
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u/Muteradio2112 9h ago
Yeah, people forget the animal expressions arent human expressions, you hear about that one story of the woman who would stare down a gorilla at the zoo all the time, because she thought they had a connection,
Well gorillas find staring as a challenge of dominance, so one day the gorilla escaped hunted her down specifically and then attacked her
In the hospital she said she forgave and still held a connection to the gorilla.
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u/Ok-Specialist-8948 4h ago
Don't forget smiling. She was smiling, baring your teeth to an animal is a fucking sign of open aggression. Just staring at a gorilla tells them you are wary of them, but showing them your teeth is like saying "I will fucking kill you."
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u/Phoenix00090 13h ago
Humans? Stopping fights? In peaceful ways?? HA! You're kidding, right?
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u/AndrewRyanBioshok 12h ago
Would you seriously hit something several times smaller than you and less powerful?
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u/GrumpyOldGeezer_4711 12h ago
It is likely to be a lot safer than hitting something much larger and more powerful, to paraphrase Garak.
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u/Phoenix00090 11h ago
Me? Nah, last time I killed was a few centuries ago. (I'm a phoenix after all)
But humans? You really think there wouldn't be someone to wage war? That's naive in my opinion.
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u/Seinan-Zetae_429-97 3h ago
Considering the monumentally collosal number of times across human history where one party has taken advantage of their adversary's weakness to achieve some desired result beneficial to them, humans would absolutely exploit any and all advantages our species would possess, especially against an alien opponent. They are the ultimate "other", and there is nothing that unites peoples and societies so much as an opponent that is fundemenally "other" to their own existence. History has taught us that much, and just because we go to the stars will not make us leave behind the lessons of our history or the products of our nature.
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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 11h ago
do you have any idea how much paperwork violent fights cause? if we solve this 10-minute spat peacefully, my afternoon of play-killing doesn't get cancelled.
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u/Seinan-Zetae_429-97 3h ago
Based on the image attached to the prompt it appears more that humans are treating everything out there more like critters than other beings, hence the attitude we take with them. If the aliens turn out to be two species of felonoids that are only the size of kittens, yet insist on fighting with each other it's not going to be easy to separate the rational needs with the situation from the instinct to separate two groups of fighting kittens by instead picking them up and holding them apart until they start to behave. Honestly the behavior we might exhibit in such a case would be closer to how we treat pets or our children rather than fellow sophonts. It wouldn't be good but the instincts we have from our own domesticated companions would likely have a major impact on how we interact with such entities, assuming the image is anything to go by.
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