A popular thought experiment asks us to imagine an advanced alien species arriving on soil,not in an H.
G. Wells-style invasion, but as advanced, or bemused,and benevolent observers. “Wouldn’t they be appalled,” we wonder, or “shocked,confused at how backward we are?” It’s a purely rhetorical device—the secular equivalent of taking a “god’s eye view” of […]
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