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From: ahv@masscomp.UUCP (Tony Verhulst)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Space Program?
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 10:03:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 10:03:27 1986
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Summary: 

>
>First, there are no other indigenous people in the solar system.  Even if it 
>should turn out that there is (say) life on Pluto, that wouldn't mean
>that we would enslave it in order to colonize the moon, asteroids, or
>L4/5 points.  And I doubt very much we would exploit, enslave, or genocide,
>even to explore Pluto--we'd just go somewhere else.

Sure.  Just like the future Americans did when indigenous people were
found on this continent.

Sorry about the sarcasm but history does show that humans do have a tendency
to enslave and/or suppress natives who have the misfortune to reside on
a piece of property that a stronger people have an eye on. I am personally
not convinced that the trend will stop when (not if) we colonize space.
In time we may evolve and mature. But - not yet.