Aliens come to earth, promising us youth, health, infinite energy, flying cars- every technology we could ever want. In exchange, we have to abandon all of our National governments and accept their beneficent totalitarian dictatorship. Yes or No?
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As appealing as everything they would be offering seems, in the long run the strings attached in order to gain them is to great. I say no.
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That would be a simple NO. Communism also promises similar benefits (although not as futuristic) but it is in our nature to seek freedom.
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No,Sounds like another Flying Car salesman.
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No. I value freedom too much. Besides I do not believe that we value anything that we do not first earn.
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Interesting, but I already live under a totalitarian regime (albeit one that is currently masquerading as a democracy) so why not trade the current one for one that offers flying cars and, apparently, a really good health care system.
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No. I watch the SciFi channel! I know what the ultimate cost would be. Well, mostly I just hate the idea of being "owned" in a more complete fashion than I am now. My government makes promises and flaunts great promises, but never follows through on anything except raises in the amount they tax me and in lessening the amount of actual freedoms I have.
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What does their government stand for? Would we be happy? Is this a lame duck dictator? I need more details. No without more information.
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No, totalitarian dictatorship?Aliens? No.
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well... its an interesting concept... the alien government couldnt be all that much worse than our own, and if we didnt like it we would certainly then have the technology to eradicate them. id say go for it.
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If aliens came here I'd doubt they would be friendly... I would assume they would bother with our planet to take the resources cause they exhausted theirs where they originally lived... So I wouldn't believe their offer at first... They might turn us into another form of energy sort of like how the machines did in The Matrix... Or the borg did in Star Trek TNG... If they had the power to come here to our tiny planet in a galaxy probably full of planets they could obtain, their technology would be far beyond ours and we would be like roaches to them...
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In the most literal sense, no way. How can I trust the promise of an alien, or indeed anyone seeming to offer rewards in return for submission? Once they are in control, there is no way to ensure you actually get and keep the reward. Now, if there's some way I can know for certain that the exchange will take place as stated, that there's no way this can be a bait-and-switch, the question changes shape. Do we live to be free? Or do we live for comfort and safety? The reality is somewhere in the middle, otherwise we wouldn't have both governments and revolutions. On one hand I'd be crazy not to trade off a flawed human government for an apparently perfect alien government. On the other hand, everything I know about the world tells me that the government must be beholden to the people to be beneficent to them. So really this question boils down to whether you believe a perfect government can exist. I do not, so my answer is again no.
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