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Would you be okay with being the pet of a member of a species with superior intelligence?

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  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Fighting a meaningless war is well...meaningless. Besides, you say that now, but the moment you see that the aliens overpwer you, yoou will shit your pants and stay frozen in fear as they adopt you, clean you up and then put you with the rest of the others. 

    Conviction doesn't make you grow balls all of the sudden, no matter what fiction tells you.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Fighting a meaningless war is well...meaningless. Besides, you say that now, but the moment you see that the aliens overpwer you, yoou will shit your pants and stay frozen in fear as they adopt you, clean you up and then put you with the rest of the others. "

    Did you not miss the suicide part?

    We will commit mass suicide if all else fails.
  • DYREDYRE
    Honor.

    There is no Honor in Death without Pain.

    Okay, I was going to say something else here, but I won't.  Instead, I'll ask something that's been bugging me forever.

    What's Up with your Completely random and Nonstandard Capitalization of Words?
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    That's assuming they let you (and also if you're frozen in fear you can't...well...move.)
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "What's Up with your Completely random and Nonstandard Capitalization of Words?"

    I've been learning German way too much.

    Also, to emphasize those words, not just as nouns, but as philosophical concepts themselves.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    >Implying you'll have enough time to destroy your bodies when the aliens arrive.

    But yeah

    @Frodo: that still doesn't soothe my curiosity on the subject, having a truly alien perspective is kind of hard to do, that's still "Written" by a human
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "That's assuming they let you (and also if you're frozen in fear you can't...well...move.)"

    The suicide would be done before they actually got to us.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Noooo, not everyone will do that. Besides, what's the chance any aliens we encounter will be hostile anyway?
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    I suppose the question comes down to this: Would I have the freedom to leave, if I wanted to?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Noooo, not everyone will do that. Besides, what's the chance any aliens we encounter will be hostile anyway?"

    I don't care if they're benevolent. They will still have come to enslave us.

    The suicide will go as planned.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    Okay so...

    You see a bunch of UFOs in the sky...

    OH SNAP IT'S SUICIDE TIME EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT'S COMING

    That is one of the least honorable reasons for death i've seen.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-07-12 23:12:03
    Cue-bey
    I find it funny that Chagen seems to be channeling the mindset of the humans from the Xeelee sequence.

    ^Hasn't that already happened? Heaven's gate?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "OH SNAP IT'S SUICIDE TIME EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT'S COMING

    That is one of the least honorable reasons for death i've seen."

    We'd wait until it was obvious the aliens wish to enslave us.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    Wouldn't they have got close enough by then?
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Assuming you wouldn't chicken out.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    What's Up with your Completely random and Nonstandard Capitalization of Words?

    I wanted to ask that one, too.

    Anyhow, animals have died bravely for their lives and stuff. How many specific ones do you remember?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Assuming you wouldn't chicken out."

    When the alternative is metaphorical death at the hands of oppressors, I will have all the conviction I need. My sword will be out, and my blood shall stain the floor.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Ok, That's enough People, Let's move back onto the Original Topic of Aliens wanting to have human pets,

    OK

    OK?!?!
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I would wonder why they keep us as pets. Humans mostly seem to keep dogs/cats because they're either useful, cuddly or we can empathise with them on some level. How would this apply to aliens?
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    A sword? Didn't you say shotgun before?
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-07-12 23:14:43
    ^^
    so they can be amused with your adorable human activities.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "A sword? Didn't you say shotgun before?"

    You have to commit seppuku with a sword.
  • DYREDYRE
    Seppuku is really dumb.

    Just sayin'.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    I guess they might think we're cuddly, or we might empathize with them, or there's a reason but we don't understand it because we're puny humans.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    I'm still bothered by how I don't know what they look like in this hypothetical situation.

    If they're giant robots like transformers I don't mind.

    If they're GIANT BUNNIES I don't mind.

    If they're like mass produced Jabba the Hutts I do mind.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Why would you commit "seppuku"? We're not Samurais, and you're hardly military material.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    What exactly are we going to be kept amused with? A gibbon requires a lot more mental stimulation than a hamster, and a human needs a lot to stave off boredom, let alone the sort of mind numbing monotony some animals experience in zoos.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    No.

    They would comprehend me, but I wouldn't comprehend them. I may as well be the pet of robots.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Snowbull.

    "useful, cuddly or we can empathise with them on some level."

    And who says this wouldn't apply to the aliens as well?

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Why would you commit "seppuku"? We're not Samurais, and you're hardly military material."

    It's badass, and the only kind of honorable suicide I know.
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