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Re:The Forbidden Island by jljljl on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:32AM (#6070805)
The first paragraph reads disturbingly like the reason we should make contact with them is because the people themselves are resources to be harvested.

Phrased like this, it's a really good reason why we should not make contact, because ultimately the primary thing we would gain from such contact is exploiting the people themselves.

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Re:The Forbidden Island by johnchristopher on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:19PM (#6073025)
I didn't say we have to gut them. We can talk to them and then nicely ask to pick up some stool and blood samples.

Frankly, I am more concerned about this argument I read in this thread : "We should do it for their children because they aren't given a choice by their parents get in touch with us and it isn't fair." That, is supremacy and way more dangerous than curiosity as an ideology.

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