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If the aliens are as willing as we are to interpret everything through a lens of violence then we likely have no chance in the first place IMHO.



If mutually assured destruction worked for human tribes, maybe it'll work between interplanetary tribes as well.


I think you folks all need to read The Three Body Problem and learn about the Dark Forest Theory :)




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