Isn't it interesting?

If we lived like the beasts we would be hesitant to interact with our own kind but thanks to our global relations and society we feel comfortable with other people, wherever they may be, barring certain ones we surely avoid. You can walk into a store with fifty customers and not feel like any of them is a threat to you because of this sense of community. Driving down the street are others like you and we get along for the most part, you just see them and think that is another person living in my world so they must be like me. I don't want to harm them so they don't want to harm me.

Some of you are skittish and paranoid but this is how I see it.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

In my opinion the idea that in order to accept others we have to find some sense of self is a scary thought and precisely why I don't like groups lol. Not that your sentiment isn't well stated and not meaning to be rude just how I perceive things. Sometimes with just cause we are leery of certain people but we are also not trained to distinguish real threats from fake. The pact bans together to "kill" some ominous threat. The Salem Witch trials is a good example of this. Several of them were on plots of land that the church wanted (as examined by modern scholars,) were outsiders, or were accused by anyone holding a grudge. I mean they killed cats and their owners for the same reason. Groups to me are dangerous beings.

I think it was our conversation from last time about sentient AI's (yeah I'm going total nerd here lol) but I feel like even though the idea is just metaphorical at this point, the large fear driving it is precisely group mentality. Their not like us etc.. but if you think about it nothing is like the other on Earth or space. In my opinion, animals are not lesser they just communicate different. Maybe more primal (or not) but there's nothing wrong with that!! There's micro animals that live up to 200 years without food or water. Their closest to practically being immortal. Fascinating creatures. They look like cute little scifi bears.

There's a lot that's not like us in which is WAY cooler to be honest.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Yep, danger looms over those deemed outside. What you've said is more like a welcome addition to my own thoughts. I think that we would still accept others it just wouldn't be as easy or quick. I have a video that demonstrates this concept.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejtaqqqfDe0]
The two different species are cautious of each other but coexist after investigating whereas with the humans today there is an assumed trust in meeting. You can still see they have problems toward the end so this isn't perfect.

Ah the tardigrade. And now after having you reignite my research on them I learned that we ingest quite a few of them and none survive. Like many of the comments I'm seeing on other sites, our bodies are just as dangerous as cosmic environs. Yet another perspective we don't contemplate often.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Jackaloftheazuresand I'm really surprised the Tardigrade doesn't survive in the human body, that's something my research of them never stated. I assumed they could survive everything because they survive radiation, in space, in lava and other extremes.

Kind of horrified at the thought of eating them. I do like them so it makes me feel a bit awkward. 🤣🤔

There's a great perspective in your response. The video was interesting too and made me think.

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