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Comment author: buybuydandavis 16 July 2015 11:13:39PM 1 point [-]

"humans are monsters and any sane civilization avoids them, that's why Galactic Zoo"

Isn't the Galactic Zoo hypothesis based on wanting to maintain the humans in their primitive habitat, and not interfere with the "natural" development?

It's not that we're horrible monsters that need to be avoided. The Earth is just a nature preserve.

Comment author: estimator 17 July 2015 01:20:00AM 0 points [-]

It is; and actually it is a more plausible scenario. Aliens surely may want it; like humans do both in fiction and reality -- for example, see the First directive in Star Trek and the practice of sterilizing rovers before sending them to other planets in real life.

I, however, investigated that particular flavor of the Zoo hypotheses it the post.