by Thief » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:43 am
I think the ability to understand logic is pretty amazing. We're not just sentient beings, we're rational beings. Is there anything that can distinguish one as being greater than rational -- in the comparison to simply conscious/sentient? Supposing that extra-terrestrial beings exist, I don't think they would be able to necessarily claim superiority. We would have different cultural/aesthetic tendencies, but if both races were rational, the laws of logic wouldn't allow authority -- at least not ethically.