quote:Originally posted by Dave: When the internally peaceful, advanced super-panthers come in their flying saucers to eat us because the smell of cooking human flesh is irresistible, I'll remind you of this.
They'll probably eat you lawyers first.
We taste bad, and the super panthers are our allies.
There is something deeply Buddhist about the hope that advanced civilistions, human or alien, are altrusitic, enlightened and benign.
While I concede that humans are roughly more humane now than they've ever been, and that wars between sovereign states have petered out, humans have also killed more of each other in the last century than ever before. We're advancing, but I'm not sure to which point.
So maybe the super panthers have some zen qualities, but have weapons of mass destruction coming out of the wazoo.
