What is "metalaw"

n. A proposed set of legal rules regulating relationships between different races in the universe.

Metalaw is a concept of space law closely related to the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI).

Immanuel Kant and his Categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" is the forerunner of the Metalaw, because if we wish to detect the intelligent signals from the Universe, we have to act in a similar manner, that is, we must also transmit intelligent signals into the Universe.

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