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Originally Posted by Bowser
This has the ring of truth to it, sadly.
I just think it is unbelievably arrogant of people to think humans are the only intelligent life in the entirety of the cosmos, or our carbon based life forms are the only type of understandable/sustainable beings ever to come around. I'd love to see the day when all of our preconceived notions go right down the toilet.
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That's a regular point of mine, as well. We are very arrogant about our level of advancement, this core belief that if we can't do something right now then that fact itself establishes a hard and fast rule forbidding anybody else from doing whatever we can't.
I think there's a strong judeo-christian element to it, too. This belief that the earth is the center of the universe, that it was created for us. I think it pervades every element of western society, whether individuals in question believe in a God or not.
And perhaps in a different way that pervades ETH believers (that's short for Extraterrestrial Hypothesis...). Maybe at the end of the day there really isn't anybody visiting here. Maybe we just aren't that interesting, or that important.
Who knows...