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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+(OP)
That's what all life forms do — consume everything they can and reproduce as much as they can. So, doing is _is_ life.

>>golerg+Oy
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+kG
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+OJ
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

>>golerg+OJ
"That's what all life forms do — consume everything they can and reproduce as much as they can"

Well, if you take this statement literal, then I think they do contradict each other - see my cancer example. But in the way you apparently meant it, then no, there is no contradiction.

>>hutzli+kG
Survivorship bias: Mutual benign coexistence and symbiosis within the present are rooted in massacres of the past.

>>BSEdlM+(OP)
The native life already has massive coverage and is expanding into the remaining space.

In a typical game the player doesn't decimate them, if anything they make the native life flourish.