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Originally posted by humphreysjim
Laws apply to humans, not alien life forms.
What you are saying makes no more sense than putting a dog on trial for rape if it humps your leg.
Edit: I'd like to hear your explanation on how we're going to put an obviously highly evolved life form with tech centuries ahead of ours to trial, in what...a courtroom?
Originally posted by fishspeaker
i challenge ANY of YOU to put a reptoid serpeant warrior on trial. he would rip your pathetic head off before you even read him his miranda rights
ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE OR REPENT
Originally posted by mbkennel
Quite clearly not so. And if a dog humps your leg you swat him.
Originally posted by mbkennelIf ETs could come here, then they have the ability to attempt communication and open normal relations.
They could TRY to talk with us and maybe ask our permission to fly? Obviously they DO NOT.
Originally posted by mbkennelIf the situation were reversed, then we would indeed be nicer to an intelligent ET species we met. We can be bastards (and very nice) to one another, but when going to another planet we'd try to put forward our best impression. Starfleet's astronauts would not be barging in and doing experiments on ET people when we could have attempted to freaking ASK them if it is OK? And if it were for simple scientific curiosity, we'd learn quite a bit more by talking with ET doctors & biologists.
Originally posted by Reignite
reply to post by prophecy4
No. But it is the arrogance of the mind to approve the same actions if WE are the ones experimenting on animals.
Originally posted by Pervius
Do you think aliens taste like chicken?
George Bush can never be put on trial by a foreign country because our guns protect him.
Ain't no way anyone's putting "aliens" on trial and putting them in prisons. If they exist they have superior firepower.
Originally posted by ObvTruth
Originally posted by fishspeaker
i challenge ANY of YOU to put a reptoid serpeant warrior on trial. he would rip your pathetic head off before you even read him his miranda rights
ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE OR REPENT
I want the person who started the thread to try that.
Originally posted by humphreysjim
Originally posted by mbkennel
Quite clearly not so. And if a dog humps your leg you swat him.
We're not discussing swatting the aliens tho, we're talking about putting them on "trial" for supposed "crimes".
Originally posted by mbkennelIf ETs could come here, then they have the ability to attempt communication and open normal relations.
They could TRY to talk with us and maybe ask our permission to fly? Obviously they DO NOT.
Hehe, can I rape you, please? If you get permission first I don't think it's rape.
So you admit that what they are doing is indeed rape?
Maybe what they're supposedly doing is perfectly normal behavior to them, just like leg humping is quite normal to a horny dog. Maybe they don't even know our laws, or maybe they're so far advanced of us that what they're doing causes them about the same amount of concern as treading on an ant does for us.
Shouldn't we be very defensive against beings that so far have shown no regard for human choice or permission and view us as nothing more than ants? Thanks for making a case for why we SHOULD NOT trust them at all.
What it comes down to is, these creatures are "alien". Everything about them is going to be alien - their behavior, their customs, their view on morality. Who knows, maybe they see us as so evil that they can justify their own behavior towards us as we might justify our own behavior towards child molesters and wife beaters.
Great, let's blow em out of the sky if they already view us as evil and have no regard for our lives anyway.
Originally posted by mbkennelIf the situation were reversed, then we would indeed be nicer to an intelligent ET species we met. We can be bastards (and very nice) to one another, but when going to another planet we'd try to put forward our best impression. Starfleet's astronauts would not be barging in and doing experiments on ET people when we could have attempted to freaking ASK them if it is OK? And if it were for simple scientific curiosity, we'd learn quite a bit more by talking with ET doctors & biologists.
Only if they were on par with us. As I say, we have no problem slaughtering animals for food, and killing bugs, etc, etc. These aliens, if as described, are to us as we are to a cockroach.
Originally posted by ObvTruth
Originally posted by prophecy4
Originally posted by ObvTruth
Originally posted by fishspeaker
i challenge ANY of YOU to put a reptoid serpeant warrior on trial. he would rip your pathetic head off before you even read him his miranda rights
ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE OR REPENT
I want the person who started the thread to try that.
I'm game. Find me one and lets do it.
Alright. Would you want to sign a Death Warrent before that?