Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-8881468-20140930192721

your arguemtn comes from your lack of having read the books, that much is obvious.

you have had civilisations that were alone for several millenia, that had fought the xenos or incoprporated them and were actually progresssing, unliek the imperium, they were on equal footing or superior technologiccally  (fully functioning stc machines f.e. in the auretian technocracy)

(interex, auretian technocracy)  humanity had survived, in several instances even knew about chaos and helped to fight it, then the unknowing brutal IoM came along and forcefully reached "compliance".

they were ahead of the imperium, they were civilised, they were beyond the total need for violence, which is why they had not created astartes, called their most important people warmaster or went about with endless firepower "exploring" the galaxy.

or take the disaporex: their way of living was with alien together in a fleet minding their own business: they were hunted down and forced toi battle and lost because they were democratic people and not some warmongering primarch set with the mission to "convert the ignorant" and unite mandkind under the oppressivve rule of the imperium...

to your 2: just defining somebody as non human and therefore denying him any value is amusing..

sidenote: emperor was actually a bringing a non religious view on the galaxy, he did not want to be a god,l his astartes were told to be atheist (which did not fully work out but the "imperial truth" was quite amusing

"The Imperial Truth also held that humanity was the species which should rightfully rule the galaxy since its physical form was the most pure and all of the other intelligent alien races, such as the Eldar, had already tried and failed to maintain galaxy-spanning civilisations."

just because some propaganda is around, does not make that propaganda any fact.

and xenophobic bullshit is xenophobic bullshit, as humans have no knowledge of what species are actually around everywhere to make a statement about their perfection. a conclusion based on flawed data is no good/working conclusion.

to your 3:

the tau have come through loads of strugle and have found a method, opveer history that brought them cooperation for mutual benefit.. a very different methode to exploiting some planet for your own ideals