if aliens held hands

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jackles
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if aliens held hands

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Yes if you encounted aliens from another world and two of them where holding hands would this make you less frieghtened of them aliens.if so there must be a reason dont you reckon.
Skip
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Re: if aliens held hands

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Probably. Because we have a cultural association of hand-holding with affection between two separate intelligent entities. Seeing this behaviour in any other creature, we would automatically assume that they have empathy; thus we might expect gentleness and kindness. Of course, they might have a completely different reasons for the behaviour, and we know that, but our emotions are influenced more by experience than reason.
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