Belief in alien visitation can be dangerous, philosopher argues

[UM-Bot]

Scottish philosopher Tony Milligan maintains that belief in alien visitors is a 'widespread societal problem'.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/380548/belief-in-alien-visitation-can-be-dangerous-philosopher-argues

[MrsGently]

17 minutes ago, UM-Bot said:

Scottish philosopher Tony Milligan maintains that belief in alien visitors is a 'widespread societal problem'.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/380548/belief-in-alien-visitation-can-be-dangerous-philosopher-argues

The thing in the US though is that distrust in the government is far and wide spread through all social classes, especially "elites" are always critical of government. And of course the proud offspring of moonshiners and outlaws never like them governments overreach either.

This is just ONE topic where one can see that. That's the real societal problem behind pretty much everything happening in the US right now. Where the politicians have to beg and risk their job if their politics is more than just putting lipstick on capitalism. Armed to the teeth on a good hundred prescription drugs barely any free time stressed out while **** just gets more expensive and on top: them government crooks are hiding them aliens to let us bleed out man...

I mean if you REALLY want to talk about the ugly underbelly of the alien beast: there are more than one wants to be folks who think most of "them" are not entirely human anyways: lizzards, shapeshifters, demon worshippers, getting high on blood of babies etc... That's how far human/American society has split: that the extreme edges of both sides of the wealth wall don't regard those on the others side as still human.

 

Interesting article. Very inspiring apparently lol sorry I typed it all

 

Edited September 3 by MrsGently
typos

[Hawken]

People associate UFO with aliens instead of it's real meaning, Unidentified Flying Object. Which is why I think it was changed to UAP.

Unidentified aerial phenomena

[Hazzard]

52 minutes ago, Hawken said:

People associate UFO with aliens instead of it's real meaning, Unidentified Flying Object. Which is why I think it was changed to UAP.

Unidentified aerial phenomena

We have a couple of those guys here aswell. 

[iAlrakis]

I'd say this is the case for every belief that has no scientific proof (yet)?

[cormac mac airt]

13 minutes ago, Hazzard said:

We have a couple of those guys here aswell. 

Unfortunately true! 
 

cormac

[Cho Jinn]

“This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist”

Who, exactly, is “we”?  And please define evidence, and what possession thereof entails.  These people…

[Hawken]

47 minutes ago, Hazzard said:

We have a couple of those guys here aswell. 

The media seems to do the same association. Which is why people do it. Media influence.

[MrAnderson]

5 hours ago, Hawken said:

The media seems to do the same association. Which is why people do it. Media influence.

The poster above insinuated that UFOs existed but are either all man made or they can be explained otherwise with the usual explanations given that don't really hold so much, if you consider meteors, stars, planets, weather balloons and some other things.

So there is zero chance according to them that some of these objects are of alien origin. And how do they know it? Mostly it's personal opinion and their worldview in which there is no way aliens can travel to earth.