I would submit that by the time we have this much material in space humanity will have evolved beyond crime. As mankind today looks at our behavior in Neanderthal days, in the incredibly far off future, they'll look back at us as impossibly barbaric.
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I would submit that by the time we have this much material in space humanity will have evolved beyond crime. As mankind today looks at our behavior in Neanderthal days, in the incredibly far off future, they'll look back at us as impossibly barbaric.