If Earth was doomed and you had the option to let all the people on Earth live on another planet at the cost of another civilization, would you?

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TheRealPepperPotts · Accepted Answer

I love  Man of Steel . <3 I lean toward Superman's view, except I don't believe it's possible for  mankind  to coexist peacefully with anyone. We are too selfish, too ambitious, too controlling, and too afraid to do so. Look at Bruce Wayne's reaction to the mere  thought  of Superman being evil. But, I would pursue coexistence, despite knowing it's unlikely to work out. FDR was right: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Fear drives us to fight against anything we don't fully understand or control. This is a foundational problem.

avery58 · Accepted Answer

I guess not. It's not fair, and humanity generally sucks anyway, maybe that other civilization is better

abc3643 · Answer

I am glad that you included that picture of Michael Shannon as General Zod even though it's from "The Flash". In "Man of Steel", his performance as Zod was spectacular and he should have been nominated for an Oscar for it. Shannon's Zod was iconic like Heath Ledger's Joker.

And it all boils down to the best moment in "Man of Steel"...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IyEQqm91Q-8

With that speech, we ask ourselves "Is Zod really a villain?" "What would we do in his place?" which is really what you are asking with this question.

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I'll answer your question in a different way, though...

We already do that and not for existential reasons.

Think of all the "civilizations" we destroy when transforming natural habitats for our own desires. A new development somewhere either kills or displaces countless animals... it alters the local ecology. Those doing the developing don't give a rat's ass; it's all about the money.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I feel like this is just a bigger version of the trolley problem lol

Ultimately if it was exclusively my choice and the choice was between the destruction of everything or the destruction of one civilization, I would choose the single civilization. We’re humans, we want to live, we want to keep going. It would be a tragedy, one I might not allow myself to survive over a longer period depending on my mental health, but I know I’m too much of a coward to become a proper martyr.

ManOnFire · Answer

Yes. I would send the vast majority of them to another world so they can go fuck that one up, and then that civilization will kick them out too. I would keep behind a handful of people who would be fairly decent and we could restart the earth together. And form a much better society🙂

Anonymous · Answer

Given the technology required to cross between star-systems is far in advance of the technology required to terraforming countless uninhabited planets.

Remember go back a hundred million years and we humans might find earth rather difficult to live on. That means terraforming which would very likely be necessary regardless.
So for them to want our planet as is rather than simply start fresh on one of the countless closer planets they would in cosmic terms need to be extremely similar to us, and have the technology to move large populations here but not so far in advance as to allow them to as easily terraforming anther planet.

Which suggest they are not soo far ahead of us, and have found a wormhole technology most likely.

The odds of similarity and proximity favor someone not from elsewhere in the universe but very close to us in just a nearby dimension from anther version of Earth.

DizzyDesii · Answer

I only know of earth so if the atliens on mars gotta die 🤷‍♀️

MicahRaine · Answer

Unless their civilization had true perfection and peace and happiness (which is not attainable in this fallen state of the universe), hell yeah.

Sorry, but you protect your own. Call me crazy but if Americans were going to be killed unless I pushed a button and bombed every other country, I'm bombing everyone. Your question is the same scenario, just on a larger scale.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

Hmmm... is there an option to apply a selective process? Like leave all the politicians behind.

Staximus · Answer

No, we can die out. Our bodies are too weak and short-lived for space travel, anyways. Maybe we'll stop trashing the planet and survive until the next big meteor but I doubt it. Some idiot will probably create a plague in a lab or something.

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

In other words destroy one civilization to save another. No!

RavVid · Answer

Both your country and mine have already done this. It's no big deal. :)

DrPepper12 · Answer

Yes. Self preservation goes beyond the individual to the species

madgoat · Answer

I thought this character was great. He was doing the right thing for his people.
Unfortunately, superman was doing the right thing for us and he ultimately won.

History tells us the strongest wins. Then writes the history to show why.

Dongie · Answer

No. I would find a way to save both or earthlings would die.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

No, I would let everyone die in a heartbeat without second thought

mrkdvsn · Answer

IMHO, Earth will not be totally "doomed" until after Christ arrives, and takes His people to New Jerusalem on the new Earth

animesenpai · Answer

Yeah but not because we deserve it

Ladsin2 · Answer

Of course, I'm human after all.

dreamstar72 · Answer

I would go for 50 ~ 50

exitseven · Answer

yes,

Yyyfjda24 · Answer

No. Kill all humans.

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