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Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is the Discovery of Aliens a Threat to the Modern State?
If aliens are hostile, then humans will pool their resources and fight to the last person if that's what it takes. I think actually, though, since they're not hostile, my worry is that them being benign, or, in a sense, loving us, so to speak, is actually a greater danger. People may switch their loyalty from their governent to worshipping these aliens. A lot of bad stuff could start. You cal get snowballing effects that were very negative in consequence, basically, from a panic kind of scenario. This human anthropacentism thing? That's a fatl experiment i'm throwing my lot into. If we have no ability to initiate contact, we can
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