Let's talk Gaians

[Zelot]

My bad. Regardless, protecting potential evolution, millions of years from now, and allowing potential famine in exchange... well... that doesn't strike me as rational. It's only natural for humans to try expand and secure food sources.

Sometimes we get locked into our own heads, not able to see things from more than one perspective. Just saying the Gaians are irrational is only a way to stop ourselves from stepping into someone else's shoes. There is a rationality to the Gaians, you just have to look at things from a different angle. You are saying that food has a particular value. Which in the end it does, but it is hard to compare that value with some intangible like the environment. In the same way, the Gaians feel that changing a planets natural eco-system, whether it be barren or Gaia, is wrong. That belief cannot really be quantified, and thus a value cannot be assigned to it. So how do we compare the value of an intangible with the value of a tangible? You dont, it doesnt work. Now I know, you say that more food is better and there is no negative consequences to it, but that is to suggest that planets that are hospitable to human life are somehow move valuable than those that are not. That is looking at it from a human centric view point. The idea that things that dont help humans have no value is just plain silly once you remove our superiority complex from the thought. The Gaians believe that all planets, in their current form are valuable, that all life in it's current form are valuable, and that altering that is taking something intangible out of the world, which cannot be replaced. Gaians just chose their values differently than you do, they are by no means irrational.

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