{"id":907,"date":"2009-07-29T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2009-07-19T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T01:05:03","slug":"alien-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/alien-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me recently that no country on Earth currently has a law against killing any sentient alien life forms that might come to visit us.<\/p>\n<p>Now, call me overcautious but I wouldn't want to visit a place where it would be perfectly legal for anyone to kill me.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the reason that we have not been visited by extra-terrestrials is simply that they think Earth would be a dangerous place for them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps all we need to do to join the interstellar community is to pass a law affording the same rights that humans have to any aliens that might visit us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me recently that no country on Earth currently has a law against killing any sentient alien life forms that might come to visit us. Now, call me overcautious but I wouldn't want to visit a place where it would be perfectly legal for anyone to kill me. Perhaps the reason that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}