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Originally Posted by Bilko
Show someone the X files or a film where we meet aliens and people get all scared and dismissive even to the point of ridicule. Show someone a film where alien races live among us ie, starwars, startrek, babylon 5 et-all and they are completely at ease with it.
Go figure
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When dealing with an unknown such an alien civilization, to error on the side of caution would be no great shame. To error the other way could be disastrous for the human race, Earth, and future episodes of Family Guy.
They could just like us or similar enough for it not to matter or they could be so different as to be unintelligible to us. In other words we may have to deal with just like we do with any other human government ...with a great deal of caution or we might not even be able to understand what they are or what they are actually doing. In either case and everything in between we should very careful and deliberate and assume nothing about them including their honesty.