Originally posted by sphinx551
Not all aliens are evil. Why would you act and assume they are evil?
I don't assume that
any "aliens" are "evil"... Good & Evil are Human concepts, and they're not even
widely-shared concepts among
Humans — for example, we in the West think of ourselves as "blessed" and we regard fundamental Muslim extremists as "evil"; on the other hand,
fundamental Muslim extremists consider themselves "blessed" while they regard the West as
supremely "evil"... We can't even agree on Good
& Evil among ourselves.
If we
honestly try to apply our concepts of Good & Evil to the many other life forms of Earth, we realize that the rest are
benign at
best (as in the plant kingdom) or merely
savage at worst (as in the animal kingdom). So, as far as we know, there's no Good & Evil elsewhere
in Nature —
we Humans are the
only truly evil species on this planet, but only by our own estimation.
This says, to me, that the
overwhelming majority of life forms in Nature — on this planet and elsewhere — are probably
benign at
best or
merely savage at worst. The only way we're going to encounter "evil" life forms from other worlds is if they are carbon copies of
ourselves and function and think identically to Humans.
Which would be, in my opinion, our
worst extraterrestrial nightmare come true. More Humans, no matter how far across the galaxy we travel,
more and more Humans, like in
Star Trek, some with watermelon-speckled pigmentation, some with a few extraneous moles and tumors on their
foreheads,
but still Human.
What a hideous reality, don't you think?
I'm more inclined to think our encounters with "advanced civilizations" will be entirely one-sided...
They will be a
savage species
— giant, pissed-off
badgers in possession warp-drive technology, maybe — who just
tear us a new butthole as soon as they open the
door and step out. We won't even get a chance to say hello or defend ourselves,
as if we could defend ourselves.
— Doc Velocity
[edit on 1/20/2010 by Doc Velocity]