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>>pul+(OP)
what about understanding our own imperialistic civilization?

crash in planet (or new continent?) and proceed to expand while decimating native life?

in any case, good game.

>>BSEdlM+2v
That's what all life forms do — consume everything they can and reproduce as much as they can. So, doing is _is_ life.

>>golerg+Q31
That's an oversimplification. If you look closer, you might find that most living things are mostly living in symbiosis with their surroundings. Your human body is an example of cooperation of simple life forms. And when those living cells of your body consume everthing they can and reproduce as much as they can - than this is called cancer.

>>hutzli+mb1
Those statements do not contradict each other. Life forms consume and reproduce as much as they can, and they also live in cooperation and symbiosis. The latter can often be the most effective strategy to consume and reproduce as much as one wants.

>>golerg+Qe1
yes, agree

the issue then, is how to decide what "as much as we can" even means; if we do "as much as we can" but this kills us, then it will have turned out that we indeed could not do that much