I've noticed that in the past few years, we as a community and as a society in general have started backing away from the tropes of aliens being evil invaders or maneaters. Overall I think this is a step in the right direction, to stop buying into propaganda and fearmongering.
However, I feel many of us have forgotten that some people are having very serious, BAD experiences with ETs. Abductions, mutilations, forced hybridization, and torture. It's become a huge elephant in the room, especially when discussing hopeful views on interstellar diplomacy.
The legitimacy of these experiences could be called into question, but for the sake of argument I'll take them at face value. Let us assume that there are good, neutral, AND bad aliens. They don't all get along, and some of them are actively hurting human beings. My question is, what do we DO about it?
In a post-disclosure world, how would we make those aliens face justice? What is the legal and ethical course for dealing with a people who have completely different morals to our own? Their technology is much better than ours, so it isn't like we can just shoot them down and tell them to knock it off. Do we take them to court? Do we make a case for the other aliens to help get rid of them? Or do we just let them continue assaulting and traumatizing people until we have the tech to fight them?
Essentially I'm asking this: How do you think we should deal with ETs that treat us like cattle or lab rats? What would YOU do to address this issue in a post-disclosure world? How do we stake out our own freedom and rights on an intergalactic scale?
Submitted July 08, 2022 at 07:16AM by Probably_Bean https://ift.tt/ovl4bm5
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