Alien asks you to prove humanity is worth saving

[Laser Priest]

Tell them it's not but tell them that I am and introduce them to my undead legion if they insist otherwise.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

"I don't guess you'd mind becoming our overlords, would you? We kinda botched the whole 'ruling ourselves thing'."

This times a million. We don't need to be wiped, we just need to be put in our place.
Like children at a candy store.

 

[Mozza444]

I'd say were just not worth saving.
However for the sake of biodiversity i would tell them to keep a few humans to study ect.
Let me be the head of this project and i would live with the aliens and communicate with them.

 

[Madman123456]

I'd say that humanity is unique. If it isn't and we have something exactly like Humanity somewhere it wouldn't matter anyway. We could merge those two together and people wouldn't even notice.

Whatever, let's just say Humanity is unique. This is a Reason to save it, if only for the unique things one could learn from a unique Civilization.

 

[castlewise]

Because sentience is waaaaaay rare.

 

[Tensacloud]

I wouldn't say that all humans are worthless and not worth saving. But I also wouldn't say that we all have worth in saving. Case by case scenario.

 

[Kyouki1980]

Thats an easy question to answer. Ofcourse it's not worth saving. In fact I would wipe the human race out if I could. Good thing I don't have access to biological weapons.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I, like so many others, would say "I don't gotta prove SHITSQUAT to you, Tentacles!! [To my army:] CHARGE!!" We might die, but atleast we'll die proud.

 

[Pyramid Head]

Give them a cup of coffee, let them watch some Bruce Campbell movies, and get them some pot. It's hard to get motivated to wipe out an entire species when you've got a joint, a pizza, and some Bob Marley playing on the radio.

 

[ZRendZ]

"I'm sorry but you say it like you're some over-all judge of whether we should survive or not? if we're that much on an annoyance then get away from our world and its not like you've done something bad, like threatening to exterminate a whole race of people like you, what different are we to you except that we're a little behind in terms of technology, if you destroy humanity then you'll destroy many other things that live on the earth, the plants, the animals the majority rely on humans to exist" that's what i would like to say atleast...

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Who says I'd want to save humanity? Most people are fucking worthless!

Typical thoughtless retard who thinks hes a cynic because he watches Yahtzee's videos. What about the ones you love, and if nothing else what about yourself

Okay, listen. I can understand why you see me as a retard. You seem to have a negative attitude toward most if not all of the "It's not worth saving" crowd. However, I want you to think about it for a second. What good has humanity done for anyone other than itself? Ever since we industrialized the world, all we have done is slowly contaminate and destroy the planet in order to give ourselves luxurious privileges. Hell, sometimes we even kill OTHER HUMANS for these luxuries. To other potential inhabitants of the Milky Way, we would be seen as a self-serving, uncaring race.

To be honest, I know that myself and my loved ones are a part of the degradation of the planet as well. We're just a few out of the conglomerate of 6.5 billion, but it's not to be overlooked. I'd sacrifice myself if that meant purging the Earth of the human parasite as it is described today.

Also, I was caustic towards many topics LONG before I discovered The Escapist, and even before I discovered Zero Punctuation. Stop assuming you know what I'm like, what I think, and how I feel toward humanity.

 

[JackKrauserFtw]

Who says I'd want to save humanity? Most people are fucking worthless!

Typical thoughtless retard who thinks hes a cynic because he watches Yahtzee's videos. What about the ones you love, and if nothing else what about yourself

Okay, listen. I can understand why you see me as a retard. You seem to have a negative attitude toward most if not all of the "It's not worth saving" crowd. However, I want you to think about it for a second. What good has humanity done for anyone other than itself? Ever since we industrialized the world, all we have done is slowly contaminate and destroy the planet in order to give ourselves luxurious privileges. Hell, sometimes we even kill OTHER HUMANS for these luxuries. To other potential inhabitants of the Milky Way, we would be seen as a self-serving, uncaring race.

To be honest, I know that myself and my loved ones are a part of the degradation of the planet as well. We're just a few out of the conglomerate of 6.5 billion, but it's not to be overlooked. I'd sacrifice myself if that meant purging the Earth of the human parasite as it is described today.

Also, I was a cynic LONG before I discovered The Escapist, and even before I discovered Zero Punctuation. Stop assuming you know what I'm like, what I think, and how I feel toward humanity.

The earth has survived much more punishing things than humans. All we are doing is speeding up our own demise, which is fine. But I'm in no hurry to end it all tomorrow, hold onto what we still have.

 

[Griffolion]

I'd ask, "Who the fuck are you to judge?"

Well they'll either be the ones with the big death laser pointed at us OR the only ones able to save us from an impending apocalypse of some sort. So I'd probably veto that question till afterwards.

OT: Nyan Cat, the full 3 hour version.

 

[Sinisterspider]

"We aren't, fire at will."

 

[GamerAddict7796]

Ask them that if they're so great what makes THEIR civilisation worth existing?
Or just show them Blackadder.

 

[Nimcha]

I'd argue there's no reason to destroy us either.

 

[xvbones]

What do you say/do?

You've all probably seen movie/game (coughgreenlanterndaytheearthstoodstillcough) where aliens debate on whether they should commit to sparing/saving Earth.

I figure this is probably a difficult question for pessemistics.

('pessimists')

To the alien that asked me to prove to him that my species is 'worth saving', i would respond "fuck you, you impossibly judgmental prick."

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

snip

I can understand that. Every living creature naturally want their life to go on. Why else would they try so hard to resist death? But my view on the matter is that we shouldn't choke and strangle the Earth much more than we already have. We have the means to change our traits of pollution and war, so I think we should utilize those means and make the Earth a better place for everyone, or ultimately be destroyed in a swift and clean manner.

 

[dibblywibbles]

simple. pop tarts and monster trucks are mans greatest inventions. plus we have the capacity to do anything. horrible atrocities and the greatest of good all wrapped up in the same species. if we're not anything, we're at least fun to watch

 

[ragawolf]

I'd ask, "Who the fuck are you to judge?"