Not really how our monkey brains work generally. We’re biologically programmed to do lots of things, like want to have babies (or at least sex and not be smart about it) and to take care of them. Not everyone does a good job, but historically speaking it’s led to a population of a few hundred people turning into a few billion.
Heinkel: I happen to pick it up. I got it when Kimblee abandoned us in the mine.
Alphonse: A philosopher stone. With this we might actually have a chance at winning. But…
Heinkel: Yeah, I know. These are made using human lives aren’t they? Your brother told me. He said, “you rather not use one of these to get your original bodies back.” In that case, don’t use it for yourself. Use it to save the entire world instead. You deserve it because even though they’ve been put into that stone you still recognize them as people. I know, those people, even though their trapped in stone they still want to fight to protect what matters to them. Let them fight, they deserve the chance.
They would never build for you because you will teach them by example to build for their descendents.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.” - ancient Greek proverb
What if they don’t care for their descendents and they only care for ideas?
Not really how our monkey brains work generally. We’re biologically programmed to do lots of things, like want to have babies (or at least sex and not be smart about it) and to take care of them. Not everyone does a good job, but historically speaking it’s led to a population of a few hundred people turning into a few billion.
That’s the whole gene vs meme concept.
The same principal applies in that people who come after you can receive your ideas.
And if their idea is you shouldn’t exsist?
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