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To: Elllk who wrote (80777)	6/4/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

I agree with your reservations should we prove alone - or treated as alone. And if we should find ourselves not alone, I would hope greatly that the others are either benign or uninterested. But as a human my highest debt is to the species and the ecosphere. (This creeping sense of debt to the ecosphere marks the start of a new and necessary stage in a sapient society's evolution. Imo.) And I am thus required to regard any aliens that would contact us in our current precarious state as a potential threat. I would rather we have a few thousand more years to grow up, learn to move and act quietly, and distribute ourselves through a few thousand cubic light years before seeing neighbors' lights across the valley. If you read science fiction I highly recommend the two works I've mentioned. "The Warriors" (Larry Niven, a short story) and The Forge of God (a novel by Greg Bear). Either of these contains ideas that should give pause to anyone who would shout at the stars.