It's like encountering other human societies. Every time we interact with them, one of two things happen.
Either 1) we offer them a better way and they do their stupid savage bullshit and eventually we have to shoot them, and then history vilifies us for all time, or 2) we leave them to remain savages, and they build a mythology about how all of their savage idiot problems are our fault, and they do their stupid savage bullshit, but now our own population won't just let us shoot them, and we're locked into a eternity with the middle east as our fucking problem, somehow.
So even beyond the Resource problem, they're (we're, in the case of any other space nation meeting us,) idiotic savages who just aren't worth the effort.
Fun fact: when the first Euro explorers first starting checking out African states, they found that several tribes were eating each other. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) an Englishman scholar & explorer who could speak 25 languages, was the first European to enter Muslim city in Harar In Africa without being executed.
They were absolute savages back then. Seems not much has changed today...
It's like encountering other human societies. Every time we interact with them, one of two things happen.
Either 1) we offer them a better way and they do their stupid savage bullshit and eventually we have to shoot them, and then history vilifies us for all time, or 2) we leave them to remain savages, and they build a mythology about how all of their savage idiot problems are our fault, and they do their stupid savage bullshit, but now our own population won't just let us shoot them, and we're locked into a eternity with the middle east as our fucking problem, somehow.
So even beyond the Resource problem, they're (we're, in the case of any other space nation meeting us,) idiotic savages who just aren't worth the effort.
Fun fact: when the first Euro explorers first starting checking out African states, they found that several tribes were eating each other. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) an Englishman scholar & explorer who could speak 25 languages, was the first European to enter Muslim city in Harar In Africa without being executed.
They were absolute savages back then. Seems not much has changed today...
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