# What Would Reptillians Really Be Like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-reptillians-really-be-like/758021 "2016-06-22T06:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-reptillians-really-be-like/758021/17 "2016-06-23T02:54:38Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Pragmatic = logical? Not following that. You actually provide me with an opportunity to make clear what I meant. I think I meant a couple of things, actually. I guess I have to confess, I was partly inspired by _Star Trek_, and Vulcans, specifically. Vulcans have no emotions. Now, I am not saying there could be an alien civilization with _no_ emotions. But what about just, say, less emotions, or more blunted emotions? This actually would make a good thread in itself (can a humanoid civilization exist, where the “people” have no emotions?). I also was envisioning an advanced being that is less-compassionate and less caring than us. Reptiles, I think (at least on earth), are often like this, in my opinion, at least. Again, though, I have to wonder if they wouldn’t just annihilate themselves, with nuclear weapons, or even just genocide. But as many of you have suggested, or at least alluded to, I am just using earth and human values when I say this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-reptillians-really-be-like/758021)._