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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think star wars says that except for “what if there was a gun so big you could shoot a planet?”

Which seems to be a smarter question than your "statement about humanity" when actually living in that humanity where all the time someone is trying to build a gun as big as possible in many contexts and interpretations.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like you're making a a bad faith argument.

Star Trek deals with lots of different technologies and their potential impacts on human behaviour; some people don't want to use the transporter or develop phobias from it, the replicators eradicate hunger and poverty (at least on earth) so society evolves to be more egalitarian, what if we could travel faster than light, etc etc.

Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies' potential impact on humanity, which is the point of harder sci fi.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Seems like you’re making a a bad faith argument.

Seems why? For me it doesn't seem so, and it likely won't, but maybe you can add some detail.

I dunno, for me Door Into Summer is harder sci-fi, but Foundation is harder sci-fi too, and Starship Troopers is harder sci-fi, and Dune is harder sci-fi as well, and Citizen of the Galaxy is harder sci-fi, and one can go on. Pilot Pirx is very hard sci-fi, and many other things by Lem.

Star Trek is not more similar to those than Star Wars.

Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies’ potential impact on humanity

Mockery is not an argument in itself and would somewhat hurt your main argument if such were made.