The Immortals Are Not Enemies of Civilizations

Spoiled kids are not an inevitability of a civilization. We can't hypothesise advance civil ations built on morality and personal discipline slowly degrading into petulant, spoiled children. But we cannot casually overlook that they should have a lot of resources for preventing that - like advanced psychology and simulate nurseries. Such behaviors are at least as detrimental to their own civilization as foreign ones. And thus we wrap around agan to the concept of motivation. What the alien actually wants? Because, realistically, we won't be able to tell much simply by its behavior.

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