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Overlaps heavily with [[Social Darwinist]], type three. Contrast [[Alien Non Interference Clause]]. See also [[Can't Argue With Elves]]. A species that practices this trope is probably '''not''' a [[Superior Species]].
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Wicked City]]'', Makie's ex-lover Jin tries to make her admit this by saying, "Human are lower-class creatures than us. They're only fit for slavery. ''That's'' their heritage."
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** Curiously, he claims that said animals are sentient, if not 'rational'. Of course only Priest-Kings are truly rational.
*** Which is actually accurate (animals being sentient, if not the rest). The word "sentient" technically and despite the way it's used by some SF writers implies nothing about a creature's ''intelligence'', merely its ''awareness''; a sentient creature is one that can experience sensations and feelings, but there's no requirement that it also be particularly bright.
* Harry Turtledove's ''[[WorldWorldwar War(Literature)]]'' series. The reptilian Race considers themselves eminently justified in conquering Earth and making humanity a subject race because of what they view as their incomparably superior culture and technology, even though said technology turns out to be not quite ''that'' advanced over humankind's. Indeed, one of the "Lizard" characters pretty much lampshades this during a conversation with a human character, when the human points out all the rights and liberties that his people yearns for and the Lizard claims, in all seriousness, that humans would enjoy those freedoms under the rule of the Race.
* The Strong Races are this to the Weak ones in ''[[The Stars Are Cold Toys]]'' duology. The galactic rules are like this: if your race is powerful enough to wipe out any other race except fellow Strong ones, you can do whatever you please. If it isn't, you better possess some unique talent useful to the Strong races, or be wiped out by them to make space for new strains of evolution.
* ''[[Out of the Dark]]'' by [[David Weber]], is about a race of aliens who usually do this successfully but get way more than they bargained for with humanity.
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