Hi. This is my first time on this Sub so please bare with me.
I often hear though, when people question why aliens have yet to visit us, the idea is often tossed around that we are "Not Peaceful" enough. While this might be true, it comes with an implication that the ET's ARE some kind of peaceful bastion of Cooperation within their species or even others.
I am no ET-Socioligist if such a thing even exists but the only examples of life and cooperation we have to look at is our own here on Earth, where there is over 1 trillion individual species on this one Rocky planet. Even looking at a species like Ants who are generally hivemindish, even they war with their neighbors and they are of the same species and I'm willing to bet that war and a lack of cooperation between ones species is not a purely terrestrial element.
Implying that ET's are so peaceful, in my mind is the denial of the reality that even in ones own species there will be disagreements in ideology and practices. Whether for better or worse it must be true. It also implies that most if not all species are hiveminds and do not have individuality like many animals on earth, including the most intelligent, humans possess.
Given the vastness of space I'm sure there are in fact plenty of species who are entirely pacifist, or at least entirely Non-Aggressive but surely it can't be the rule of thumb and I doubt it is common.
Thoughts?
Submitted May 22, 2016 at 09:51PM by JackalNagant http://ift.tt/25axV9L
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