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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Nature dictates violence, Its intelligence that dictates respect. So aliens more advanced would be more respectfull, that doesnt mean that they would not exploit us though.
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Tell that to a dog.
And yes, there is every probability they would if they could.
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Dogs are violent no? Dogs kill cats for sport, cats kill mice for sport etc. Its Nature. To be nice to an outsider is unnatural, moreover to do so without trying bring him inside your circle is outside human nature.
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Humans are extremely violent, much more so than any other species on the planet. That we industrialize a lot of our violence won't alter that.
Dogs, as well as many other pack animals, have a much stronger sense of respect than humans. That was my point.
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You could even argue that the greater the intelligence, the lesser the respect. Jindos are extremely loyal, but they tend to respect rules much less than other dogs without a lot of training, and will do creative things like jump fences or gnaw through them that other dogs won't.
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No no the greater the inteligence the more widespread the respect, also respect for rules is not fear of punishment ie 'training'. Respect for rules needs to alignment of internal values with the rule
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I don't punish my dog. I also know a lot of humans who were aversion trained and would unravel behaviorally if they stopped being afraid all the time.
What are you basing the claim about intelligence on, out of curiosity?
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Yes you could say that the other is a chance to learn something new. Isnt what inteligence is all about?
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I think most of our definitions of intelligence are either primitive or unsupported in their core premise.
g/IQ is at best a half-decent yardstick; whether scientifically or philosophically, it doesn't get better from there
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Humans for example studied the animals, sought to understand them and out of the understanding grew the respect. They are not just food, danger or competition.