What's on Your Mind

[Chase]

What makes you think that an alien species would be any better than us humans? Afterall, if climate change is going to drive us off Earth, it might be fair to assume they left their for the same reasons and perhaps their visiting us may very well be for nefarious purposes. It is a bit of an existential question, if the presence of humans is bad for the planet and the rest of the inhabitants, then is any form of life good? Seems that every form of life feeds on another, even a fungus can take over an ant's brain for its own survival. I'm not a fan of all the self-loathing. Humans do a lot of bad shit, we know this because we are human. I think we have just as much of a right to exist as any other creature that inhabits the planet. However, perhaps we humans are too clever for our own good.

I don't assume aliens are automatically benign if they pass all of the great filters to become a space-ferrying species. One of the great filters is, however, not nuking yourself. An explanation as to why aliens haven't been so common as to make unavoidable contact with us is that intelligent civilisations will always inevitably destroy themselves with nuclear weapons. 

Sadly, humans will probably not pass this filter.