“You operate an interstellar cultural exchange? That’s what this is all about? You don’t care if some rapacious, bloodthirsty civilization develops interstellar spaceflight?” “I said we admire lovingkindness.” “If the Nazis had taken over the world, our world, and then developed interstellar spaceflight, wouldn’t you have stepped in?” “You’d be surprised how rarely something like that happens. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it. In such a case, our job would be to leave them alone. To make sure that no one
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