[quote=@Lucidnonsense] The level of organization we place preference on in human society may not be the only place to put it, we place it on an Organism, but what if a society placed more importants on the rights of parts of organisms? perhaps these parts may have more autonomy than that of a human, perhaps every part of an organism is seen as a person perhaps the group is considered a person, perhaps the universe is considered "person" [/quote] That's interesting. I'm coming up with my own sci-fi setting but have yet to create a race that values individual parts like separate organisms. Considering the entire galaxy as it's own organism wouldn't be unheard of in terms of philosophy. They see everyone as like the cells of the galaxy to get it to work in proper order, and bad cells such as cancer need to be eliminated for the galaxy to become healthy again. You can see where such a race's thinking would take them. Earth in the year 2150 will still be like caveman to any spacefaring race that can travel between solar systems at will unless they have borrowed alien technology or some other event happened to spark technological innovation outside of our own timeline.