@davidc4430 wrote:the question is purely hypothetical
how would mankind act in the face of rocking up on mars to find a primitive race of beings allready there
do i think there are a race of beings there?
not on the information i have.
our past has not been a good example of how to treat those who were there first.
i just wonder have we as a species learned anything or would we take guns/weapons and force the old inhabitants to 'see it our way'?
I think if a space mission did rock up on a planet with a clearly identifiable life form, a race of beings as you call it, there would be immediate calls for future space missions to that particular planet to be stopped or done with extreme caution. Remember, the eyes of the world would no doubt be on the mission, with cameras watching as well.
It's easy to always put humans down as unnecessarily violent or 'bad' but I don't think that is necessarily so.
If you look at the past, a lot of exploration was probably necesssary for survival. Being ready to defend yourself or your group was another survival mechanism. If we didn't have a bit of this aggressive DNA in us, we would not flourish.
You'll see it in animals too. It's normal, it's natural.
How we react to other life forms in space will depend on their level of threat to us and where we are 'at' so to speak.
Playing hypotheticals 
: If a space mission in the (far distant) future, found a planet we could live on and it was fairly empty with just a few primitive beings on it, and earth was in a bad way, on the verge of extinction then yes, for sure, I'd say we would aim to colonise, move some settlers there, stake out a claim. Why not? It would be the sensible thing to do.
If we discovered a primitive race right now, there would be interest but many groups here calling for the protection of the alien race. Since we don't at this moment have the means to colonise another planet and we're not desperately needing to, we could afford to be kindly. But human behaviour changes according to need.
@springyzone wrote:
@davidc4430 wrote:the question is purely hypothetical
how would mankind act in the face of rocking up on mars to find a primitive race of beings allready there
do i think there are a race of beings there?
not on the information i have.
our past has not been a good example of how to treat those who were there first.
i just wonder have we as a species learned anything or would we take guns/weapons and force the old inhabitants to 'see it our way'?
I think if a space mission did rock up on a planet with a clearly identifiable life form, a race of beings as you call it, there would be immediate calls for future space missions to that particular planet to be stopped or done with extreme caution. Remember, the eyes of the world would no doubt be on the mission, with cameras watching as well.
It's easy to always put humans down as unnecessarily violent or 'bad' but I don't think that is necessarily so.
If you look at the past, a lot of exploration was probably necesssary for survival. Being ready to defend yourself or your group was another survival mechanism. If we didn't have a bit of this aggressive DNA in us, we would not flourish.
You'll see it in animals too. It's normal, it's natural.
How we react to other life forms in space will depend on their level of threat to us and where we are 'at' so to speak.
Playing hypotheticals
If we discovered a primitive race right now, there would be interest but many groups here calling for the protection of the alien race. Since we don't at this moment have the means to colonise another planet and we're not desperately needing to, we could afford to be kindly. But human behaviour changes according to need.
define "primitive race".
Are we it?
