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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5112693" data-attributes="member: 4937">Err... so? Humans have pretty specific outlooks and viewpoints that span the entire species, they just tend to be fairly transparent to us to the point that we tend to assume that they are univerally shared traits of all sentient species or else when we encounter a human that doesn't seem to share these traits we consider them aberrant (consider the term 'sociopath').  One of the things you regularly encounter in science fiction is attempts to render our own universal biologically based viewpoints opaque to the reader by constrasting them with some invented non-human figure that doesn't share with us that biology or outlook.  While these invented figures are general simplistic sterotypes, there is no reason to believe that the fundamental idea of a alien mindset is incoherent in itself.  We are fairly large, endurance specialized, nomadic, omniverous hairless social simians with hardwired throwing software that lets us perform quick calculations of trajectory and speed that modern computers have difficulty keeping up with.  Of course we are going to have built in viewpoints unique to our nature.</blockquote>