Think about it; as a species we murder literally 1.5-3 TRILLION living animals in depraved conditions every year, despite there being no biological requirement for the practice for the continued health of human beings. You wanna be the species that uplifts the voracious cannibal monkeys of Sol 3? You wanna have to explain to the commander that you gave hyperspace drives to the residents of an open-air abbotoir that don't even respect the sentience of animals they domesticated into existence? submitted by /u/foxaru [link] [comments]