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Originally Posted by blankall
Assuming they exist as physical beings the way we do a bunch of apes with thermonuclear devices who are capable of inter-solar system travel is going to be a threat. I guess it's possible they surround everything they are interested in a force field? Our biggest nukes are going to damage any physical environment.
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Which is a huge assumption. You’re also assuming they would understand the distance between us to be the same as we understand the distance between us and apes, that they are interested in anything, that they care about physical environment, or (again) that they are even capable of understanding a thermo-nuclear weapon as a threat in the same terms we understand it as one.
Again, it’s a whole lot of “they’re like us but smarter,” which is a massive leap on about a hundred different fronts to begin with.
We think too often of aliens as “advanced” along a human-centric timeline. It’s probably more likely they exist on an entirely differently development timeline altogether rather than anything we would understand as “advanced,” so there’s also little reason to believe they would think of us as “primitive.”