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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9730572" data-attributes="member: 42856">There might be some idea that humanity is slowly developping the idea that genociding your neighbour is no longer as good an idea as we collectively thought until recently. If space conflicts are to happen in the future, one could very well envision that sending a low cost planet-killer on Planet 223, wiping out billions of civilians, will not fly with your population of your own Planet, 221. Sure, maybe not all cultures right now are adhering yet to the idea that genocide is bad, but we have some time left before we colonize other planets. Progress has been made since Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant. I am not sure the Rebel Alliance would have said "hey, there is an easy solution to the Palpatine problem, let's send an asteroid on Coruscant" in 15 BBY, despite all of the founding planets having the capability to do that. Same during the Clone Wars. We use droids, or clones, not real persons, and that's the "worst" we'll do, even if the Trade Federation could easily have wiped Coruscant (again...) for sending in a pair of Jedi to meddle with their trade negociation with Naboo. Their own public opinion wouldn't have approved that. And then Tarkin uses the Death Star, showing that he doesn't care about the equilibrium. Still, no wiping of Coruscant.I am not convinced the argument would be as strong with alien species. We have a history of eradicating species on a daily basis without a qualm, and the trend doesn't seem to slow. Unless we're fighting cute space kittens, species removal would certainly be on the table. In this case, acknowledging that kinetic impactors are MAD and banning them in a Geneva-convention like treaty, possibly proposed to any civilization that can develop spacefaring outside its system. "Hello, nice to meet you. We've noticed that it is your first hyperspace jump. Kudos to your species. Now, please sign this treaty renouncing the use of planet-busting tech or all the signatories will immediately wipe your civilization out with planet-busting tech."</blockquote>

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