As for those that say, genocide is wrong, no way around it, and those that believe it can be a good thing, well, here's an idiotic fact: all is prone to interpretation.
What is wrong to YOU does not have to be wrong to ME.
All, in the end, is in the eye of the beholder.
Gnaw a few hours on that.
Klingons don't get drunk.
They just get less sober.
@smokebailey the chick in your pic is hot, did you do her yourself?
She's Cassy, my main toon.
She's a sorta an idealized version of myself. Or think this way....Cassy is catwoman and I'm Selena Kyle, or Cassy being She-Ra and myself being Adora, if that makes any sense.
The Borg, trust me it's ending a fate worse than death.
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
I'm glad you've all been enjoying my poll. Next week I'm thinking of going with either "Which Star Trek actress is hotter?" or "Does Shatner wear a toupee? Yes or no". I can't decide which to go with, maybe I should make a poll to decide.
I'm glad you've all been enjoying my poll. Next week I'm thinking of going with either "Which Star Trek actress is hotter?" or "Does Shatner wear a toupee? Yes or no". I can't decide which to go with, maybe I should make a poll to decide.
That one's pointless even for trolling. Anyone who answers "no" is quite gullible. So much so that they probably don't even realize that Wikipedia has no entry for "gullibility."
Given a choice between stepping back and letting ~20 of them die or watching more than twenty planets get scoured of all life, my moral calculus is surprisingly comfortable with allowing the Iconians to be wiped out. Though, without the idiot ball being rammed in between my teeth that wouldn't have been a problem... given that I'd have summarily executed Sela ages ago before she could have her little meltdown on Iconia
And before people get too high and mighty on 'genocide is wrong', consider how incredibly arbitrarily the term is being used. For most, if "THEY" are enough like us that we care, if they're CUTE enough, we care. But every day you take a shower you deliberately and willfully exterminate entire ecologies with millions of individual members. And I'm sure a few people here have arranged to fumigate a house to wipe out whole colonies of insects or even mammals (rodents)! Because hey, there's nothing chauvinistic about telling yourself "I'm sapient, so sapience is a handy cut-off point for when it's ok or not ok to indulge in mass extinction FOR CONVIENINCE."
Seriously. Get over yourself. We, as a species KILL. In vast quantities. And it's only a bit of genetic programming, of kin-selection, that gives you the slightest qualms about when it happens to somebody far, far away you've carefully schooled yourself to think "is not like me, so they're not important".
Your comfortable life typing on a keyboard is built on the bones of Neanderthals.
Enjoy your next shower and may your home never have termites!
I don't even understand the point of your post.
Horrible, terrible things should be stopped. Perpetuating them simply because "that is how it has always been", is wrong. The world we live in would be a lot worse if that was the prevailing philosophy. As for your "think of the poor microbes" comment, insects and microbes are not capable of having a discussion. In many cases, they are harmful to us or to our shelters. Since we can't come to a mutual agreement, it becomes an "us or them" mentality. A situation that is often seen as a last resort, just like in Star Trek.
If communication was an option, a lot more people would take it, either from a moral standpoint or from a "less hassle" standpoint.
Someone from a specific species had to create the Borg virus and infect their species or an enemies' species with it to create the Borg. Then there is the process of assimilation which introduces biological ... distinctiveness from alien races into the Borg which seems very similar to reproduction. The Borg are not a natural species, but they are certainly an artificial species.
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Agree...wow how can this still be on. Even a s a fantasy.
As for those that say, genocide is wrong, no way around it, and those that believe it can be a good thing, well, here's an idiotic fact: all is prone to interpretation.
What is wrong to YOU does not have to be wrong to ME.
All, in the end, is in the eye of the beholder.
Gnaw a few hours on that.
They just get less sober.
Except Kazon lol
I like how you think, Batman.
Sorry, one has to go on this poll. Bye bye Bajor!
Hab SoSlI' Quch!
She's Cassy, my main toon.
She's a sorta an idealized version of myself. Or think this way....Cassy is catwoman and I'm Selena Kyle, or Cassy being She-Ra and myself being Adora, if that makes any sense.
I do all my own 3D art pictures.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Ferengi are unlikeable all around, but that's what makes them likeable. Also, they provide me with illicit goods.
Talaxians arent even in this quadrant, so I'll refrain from voting for them. I dont really care either way.
Romulans depends on which ones you're going with. I dont like the empire/sela/tal shiar all that much, but I dont mind the republic.
Klingons are an intriguing culture to me, so I'd keep them around.
Honestly though, humans... based on my real life experiences, are terrible creatures. I'm gonna go with humans.
That one's pointless even for trolling. Anyone who answers "no" is quite gullible. So much so that they probably don't even realize that Wikipedia has no entry for "gullibility."
Really? because I don't miss the Neanderthals. And there's plenty of places that are happy to have all but wiped out tigers.
Oh, they're not human... yeah, that's usually the first step in prepping for a little friendly extinction.
Humans routinely obliterate the 'other' and its a lynchpin in our rising to be the dominant species on this planet.
Seriously. Get over yourself. We, as a species KILL. In vast quantities. And it's only a bit of genetic programming, of kin-selection, that gives you the slightest qualms about when it happens to somebody far, far away you've carefully schooled yourself to think "is not like me, so they're not important".
Enjoy your next shower and may your home never have termites!
Horrible, terrible things should be stopped. Perpetuating them simply because "that is how it has always been", is wrong. The world we live in would be a lot worse if that was the prevailing philosophy. As for your "think of the poor microbes" comment, insects and microbes are not capable of having a discussion. In many cases, they are harmful to us or to our shelters. Since we can't come to a mutual agreement, it becomes an "us or them" mentality. A situation that is often seen as a last resort, just like in Star Trek.
If communication was an option, a lot more people would take it, either from a moral standpoint or from a "less hassle" standpoint.
Someone from a specific species had to create the Borg virus and infect their species or an enemies' species with it to create the Borg. Then there is the process of assimilation which introduces biological ... distinctiveness from alien races into the Borg which seems very similar to reproduction. The Borg are not a natural species, but they are certainly an artificial species.