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In that great sci-fi movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still
[1951], the extraterrestrial visitor, Klaatu, outlined the purpose(s) of Gort,
the AI robot that accompanied him:
If any act of aggression occurred, Gort (and his robotic
kin) would immediately quell the aggression, by force.
This simple AI directive has full sentient purpose and
merit.
It is a directive that one would want the Creator of all to
commit to; that is, when Jesus said, “Suffer the little children … to come unto
me” {Matthew 19:14], he was offering a suggestion of “protection” for them.
And if Jesus was the “Son of God” – the Omnipotent God –
instead of a connection to the pathological Hebrew god, Yahweh, his suggestion
would carry the weight that Klaatu’s had for humans.
By this I mean that a real God – a truly divine, omnipresent
“thing” that created the Universe and all that’s in it – would, if one sentient
being rose a hand against another sentient being – a human about to strike or
kill another human or a hunter about to kill a deer or elephant or tiger – that
aggressor would be stifled, stopped it its tracks, by para- lyzation or
unconsciousness of some kind, even death depending on the seriousness of the
action.
An interactve ET species, it seems, if there was a God or if
that species had progressed (“evolved”) ethically or spiri- tually (as Teilhard
and Lecomte have it), would also be disallowed to harm sentient beings (human
and otherwise), much as Azimov’s robots are constrained by the First Law of
Robotics:
1.
A robot may
not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to
harm.
I know that some visitors here allow for the “behavior” of
alleged alien kidnappers but as is argued by theologists (Augustine, Aquinas,
and Teilhard and du Noüy), thinking beings would, if not already predisposed,
develop a morality that disallowed killing or other primitive behaviors. (I’ll
provide a plethora of thoughts on the matter for those who think otherwise.)
So, while so-called intrusive extraterrestrials are behaving
“badly” humans should understand that we humans, who are not gods, have a right
to stop them in ways that are the opposite of Asimov’s robot rules or even that
of the Hebrew demi-urgos: Thou shalt not kill.”
