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NY Times: Ethics for Extraterrestrials.

“On Hawking’s side of the argument is the fact that natural selection does create organisms prone to belligerent self-interest. And when individuals manage to submerge their self-interest in the interest of a group — clan, tribe, nation — the belligerence tends to just move to the group level, as it did when European explorers, while behaving very politely toward one another, slaughtered natives. [snip] So why wouldn’t an alien species evince this principle, and unite only to conquer?”

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