It wasn't their land either until they conquered whoever was there
before them. The "prime directive" was to not interfere in another
culture...it didn't say anything about replacing it. Should the
Spaniards have "respected" the human sacrifice religions of the Aztecs.
Were we wrong to interfere in the Nazi culture of killing Jews and
Gypsies? Do we have so little confidence in our own culture that we
can't tell superstition from reason?
Brent
On 12/22/2015 5:34 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Disappointing, but I imagine a truly advanced civilization to have
something akin to the "prime directive" à la Star Trek. And respect
the fact that, superstitious and unsophisticated as the other cultures
might appear to you, they were there first and their land is not your
land.
We might have to adapt quickly to such a way of thinking, if we are
not to let the Donald Trumps of the world destroy our culture in a
fight against the Donald Trumps of other cultures.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:56 PM, John Clark <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The death of the Thirty Meter Telescope seems complete. In a sad
parade construction equipment has been coming down Mauna Kea for
the last several days probably never to return. The state said the
equipment could stay there if the Thirty Meter Telescope people
want to appeal but that would take years and jittery donors are
terrified of offending religious imbeciles; so it looks like
they're not even going to try an appeal and are just throwing in
the towel. Kuuipo Freitas, a native Hawaiian imbecile, said:
/"It's all pretty much cleared now. We know right now there's no
construction that's going to be happening on Mauna Kea. We need to
stop bowing down to the dollar and starting bowing down to the
Mauna. She can just stand majestically without being harmed."/
So instead of an instrument to help us understand the universe we
have a bunch of ignorant dimwits bowing down to a mountain. You'd
think they were trying to build a glue factory and not one of the
most noble structures ever built by humans on the planet.
John K Clark
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