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| Hardy's painting about conflict between civilizations (Picture I) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
There is one big question about the colonization of another planet. That is " if we are ruined our own planet, could we continue that action in another world"? That is the very good philosophical question about ethical space exploration. When we are colonizing other planets, we must ask: "do we want to make that, because we have made our own environment unable to live. When we are thinking about the situation, where we are forced to leave our home planet, do we have ethical right to go to another planet and start to conquer it? Of course, the human being is number one in our own thoughts, and we are civilization, what have got right to be, but when we have polluted our own planet, can we go to another planet and start to act like some conquistadors?
And here we must ask the question, what if that would give the reason for other civilizations to attack us because they would see that we will destroy other planets? On the top of the text is artist David Hardy's painting about the war between civilizations, and that made me think that maybe this hypothetical situation is caused because that other citizens have been attacked by some other civilization, and that's why that civilization has been created tactic called "shoot first, ask then", what would cause terrible situation, when some probe would come to their solar system.
The reason for that might be attacked by other civilization. When we are talking about hyper civilizations, what life is not connected with planets, we must know that those civilizations might be very different than we are. In this scenario, some civilizations would leave their own solar system, and then suffuse to the entire galaxy. Those civilizations would live in giant spaceships, and they might travel around the universe for hunting materials for their ships.
And those civilizations might act like some doomsday horror film. They might send their machines to some solar system and explode all planets, by giving anti-matter injection to the center of them. After that gigantic factories would start to make new spaceships for those aliens. This kind of way to act would cause terrible situations if those civilizations would not notice other aliens. And this could be the big threat to mankind if we would travel to space in distant future. If those "grasshopper civilizations" would be true, they can cause the situation, where all visitors in some solar system would be attacked before any contact can even try to make.
In this scenario, I mean that all violent actions are learned, and when we are thinking about Spartan or some other nation militarism, that militarism is caused, because that society has been faced violent threat for its neighbors. And probably the behavior of the planet-size society would be the same. Here I must say that some isolated societies on Earth are also violent against intruders, and the reason for the violent behavior is that sometimes before those societies were attacked. And this makes us think, that if some civilization would face violent attack, it would act violent way to other civilizations.
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Picture I
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