Hypothetical: Humans discover intelligent alien life that is less advanced than us. Eventually, we get the ability to visit them. Do you expect us to be overall helpful or harmful to them?
I guess it depends on who we send to visit them, but I think if we sent the right people, the aliens could definitely learn from our mistakes & flesh out the sustainable technology concepts we've started (assuming they have comparable resources).
I assume scientists will be the one's visiting, so I don't think it will be quite as bad as the explorers of our past. However, I assume we will take some of their resources or come to live on their planet.
The thing is I'm not sure how we would think of these aliens. Would we regard them as sentient beings deserving of life or just animals, and would we be right in believing so. These aliens won't have the same form of consciousness as us,
They'll be totally foreign to our understanding. As I said in a previous poll, we may feel some sympathy towards them, but they probably won't be capable of sympathy, or any other human feeling. It won't be like two countries meeting, it'll be like
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