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Post by rick on Feb 6, 2011 19:12:38 GMT -4
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 6, 2011 19:41:37 GMT -4
No
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Post by echnaton on Feb 6, 2011 20:26:17 GMT -4
Are they related to Thetans?
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Post by rick on Feb 6, 2011 23:27:34 GMT -4
you got your tech terms mixed up, echnaton.
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2011 13:01:07 GMT -4
"Lamanite" is a Mormon term typically referring to native americans.
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Post by echnaton on Feb 7, 2011 14:00:46 GMT -4
It is a new term to me. No offense intended to you, Jason, in my previous comment.
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2011 14:09:56 GMT -4
None taken.
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2011 14:39:49 GMT -4
To take the question seriously for a moment, not contacting a tribe of hunter-gatherers seems problamatic to me. If you don't talk to them sure they avoid the problems of modern life, but they also lose out on the benefits. Really basic things like the benefits of sanitation and antibiotics, for instance.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Feb 7, 2011 14:49:42 GMT -4
Scientists should post great big signs around their area stating "Control Group - do not feed."
If I were kidding, I'd use a smiley. I'm not.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 7, 2011 15:51:22 GMT -4
To take the question seriously for a moment, not contacting a tribe of hunter-gatherers seems problamatic to me. If you don't talk to them sure they avoid the problems of modern life, but they also lose out on the benefits. Really basic things like the benefits of sanitation and antibiotics, for instance. Yeah because then we can introduce them to influenza and measles and all of those cool things too. |
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2011 16:02:38 GMT -4
Granted there are advantages and disadvantages to having contact with the rest of humanity, but if we are to treat them as human beings, surely we have to give them the option of whether they want this contact, rather than making the choice for them?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 7, 2011 17:48:58 GMT -4
Granted there are advantages and disadvantages to having contact with the rest of humanity, but if we are to treat them as human beings, surely we have to give them the option of whether they want this contact, rather than making the choice for them? Exactly why we should do nothing. If they want to make contact let them make the first move. If we go blundering in there and ask them, then we have taken that choice away in doing so. |
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2011 19:00:46 GMT -4
Granted there are advantages and disadvantages to having contact with the rest of humanity, but if we are to treat them as human beings, surely we have to give them the option of whether they want this contact, rather than making the choice for them? Exactly why we should do nothing. If they want to make contact let them make the first move. If we go blundering in there and ask them, then we have taken that choice away in doing so. But do they even know we exist to begin with? They can't ask for what they don't know is available. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 7, 2011 19:49:17 GMT -4
I'm suspecting they know that there is something out there, since they were watching the plane that took the photos.
The thing about first contact is that once you do it, it's too late to ask if they wanted it. You can't ask them if they want contact without making it, and thus defeating the entire point of asking. I perfer the Prime Directive approach, when they are ready and start looking, then we can make contact, until then, leave well alone and let them develop in their own way. We have already destroyed enough cultures and killed enough people by exporting western vices and diseases to them. How about we just leave well enough alone this time.
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Post by randombloke on Feb 7, 2011 22:18:09 GMT -4
Scientists should post great big signs around their area stating "Control Group - do not feed." If I were kidding, I'd use a smiley. I'm not. Kidding or not you made me smile and for that I thank you. ;D Good idea too, so long as they neither find, nor decipher, the signs.  |
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