Humans should count ourselves lucky that we have yet to encounter a more powerful species.
The various sophistries we use to justify how we treat other animals and each other... we embody everything we accuse others of but worse.
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Every time I see someone wish for contact with aliens, I silently wonder if they're completely insane.
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Any sane aliens would quarantine the hell out of our planet, solar system or star cluster.
Non-sane aliens... well, observe nature. You tell me.
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I mentioned this under Eldritch horrors. Such a thing seems monstrous to us, but may well be at least somewhat justifiable, depending on how the rest of the universe compares...
Pretty sure this was a theme Lovecraft used. Some of his otherworldly creatures were evil, others hostile simply because we are what we are.
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