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What confers moral standing?

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There is no intelligence required for this to happen.
If S.E.T.I. got this message in a decipherable code,what would they think?
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Flann wrote:There is no intelligence required for this to happen.
If S.E.T.I. got this message in a decipherable code,what would they think?
Assuming it could happen, they would think it's an alien species.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
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