Nov
05
How would we treat less advanced aliens?
Suppose mankind found a planet suitable for life that was occupied by sentient life forms, but of say the iron age or less. Would our colonisation be brutal, move them on to reservations, use them for food etc? How would we like aliens to treat us in a similar situation?
Answer by Billy Butthead
They would be treated like any other less advanced people we would take them over.
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probably stomp on them if they could not be used for slaves.
How do we treat less advanced cultures when we first encounter them today? Like, in the Amazon? Do we respect them and leave them alone or do we rape their land, rape their women, and kill their men and children? Answer: (B).
Depends on which group of mankind you’re talking about.
I can’t foresee China or Russia treating them any better than they shamelessly treat their own people. A religiously-dominated society like the US would ultimately send missionaries to “save” them which would result in their complete psychological and cultural destruction as it always has here on Earth.
I would like members of an alien race to treat us as–at the least–intellectual equals and share their knowledge with us. Not with the governments–with the people as a whole. Even if they are less “advanced” the we are, we could still learn a very great deal from them.
The track record of humans in general suggests that we would decide that the native culture was not to our liking, and eliminate it violently. The practical interests of the species would then be subjugated to our own, unless they happened to be entirely compatible, which is unlikely. Ultimately we would do whatever suited our best interests in the circumstances that we encountered.