Revan wrote:You don't think that humans would be petrified if we discovered another species that equals or supasses our own intelligence. I'm not talking of dogs or cats when I refer to the kind of fear humans have of anything different to itself. I mean dogs aren't likely to surpass us as Earths most powerful race, they can barely fetch a stick without proper teaching.
You're beating a strawman, Revan. The case has never happened, so we have no way of knowing. But given the number of people who
want to believe there are real live aliens in our midst, in spite of a glaring lack of credible evidence, I'd say there are considerable grounds for believing you're wrong.
In any case, you look damn silly proclaiming a future event as a proven fact and basing an argument upon it.
You forget, the Amnion knew that Nick was a cop (Milos told them), playing a game, and most likely cheating them in coming to Enablement; so in the minds of the Amnioni, it was acceptable; seen as they would view Nick status as a UMCP agent as the reason he came to Enablement, therefore to cause them trouble.
Then if they were not 'devious', they should have refused to deal with him at all. Is it so hard to say, 'Buzz off, copper'?
Not true, have you forgotten slavery? Enslaved hundreds of thousands of people just because their skin was a different color from theirs...You really think humans don't fear things that are different from themselves, to both internal and external differencies?
Slavery was not based on the masters' fear of the slaves. It was based on greed, which is an entirely different motivation.
And in fact, the vast majority of the slaves in human history were of the same race as their owners. That argument holds no water at all.
They cannot help it
They are made to behave that way because of their genetic code. It does not occur to them that they are doing the wrong or right thing (If such concepts exist among them) they are merely behaving the only way they can. To list such actions as merely devious is a simpleminded description on what drives them.
I'm not saying the Amnion are devious because they hate other life forms. I'm saying that they are devious because they claim to deal honestly with humans, but continually violate or pervert their agreements.
In any case, we
know that the Amnion
necessarily fear and hate humans; we are told so repeatedly in the book. Humans, as such, don't necessarily fear and hate the Amnion; they fear and hate
being turned into Amnion, which is a pretty legitimate thing not to want, if you ask me.
And yes, the Amnion could help it if they wanted to. They have the technology to radically change an organism's DNA. Why not give themselves mutagens that would allow them to chill out and accept the existence of non-Amnioni life? It's a big universe, and they're going to have to deal with it sometime.
Without the Quest, our lives will be wasted.
