reply to post by DataWraith
Well the one thing I'll say to that is just look at Nature. Really take a look at it. What do you see at all levels of Nature? Let's move up the
"food chain" and the other observable features and functions of Nature:
1. Insects are territorial and will protect and kill each other. They also eat each other. Examples: spiders will kill other spiders that invade their
space. They setup webs to capture insects to eat them. Ant colonies will war with other ant colonies that cross what ever arbitrary borders they have
designated.
2. Birds eat insects and some birds eat other birds. Examples: sparrows, ravens, doves, pigeons all eat insects and what ever they can scrounge up
outside of the Burger King - hawks and eagles eat other birds, their eggs, the other birds offspring and what ever they can scrounge up.
3. Fish eat insects and other fish and some even eat people and animals. Examples: trout, bass, and other lake and river fish eat insects and other
little river and lake fish. The birds of prey: eagle specifically eat river and lake fish. Sharks and other aquatic predators eat any thing they can
catch including humans.
4. Mammalian predators eat the passive mammals that are their prey. Lions and other large cats eat just about any "thing" they can catch including
humans. Groups of primates will war with other groups of primates. When I had cable TV I was watching discovery channel and there were researchers in
Africa studying some monkeys. They were shocked when the monkeys literally murdered one of their group. They showed documented footage of how one
monkey went to others in the group. Then those members all went and got rocks and rather large sturdy sticks and killed another member of their
group.
5. Humans eat anything - some times they even eat other humans.
6. Aliens? Logic would dictate that if aliens exists they would exhibit the exact same facilities for survival that all species would need, and must
exhibit, if they are to survive.
War, murder, violent actions are part of Nature. These actions/functions of Life exist throughout the corpus of Sentient Life. They are survival
mechanisms necessary for the propagation of Life and Species.
None of the above is "evil" in the moral sense they are all acts of survival in one way or another. Our minds may attribute the idea of "evil" to
certain actions. In that sense, yes I attribute the idea that all aliens are evil; just like us. But that is really a misnomer. They seek to survive
just like us so they CANNOT logically have the best interest of the human species as their primary motivating impetus. And if all the abduction events
are true then their actions indicate an ulterior motive.
As I stated before there is no logical reason to assume that a species of greater intelligence or technological sophistication is any more benevolent
then we are. They will have a different set of mores and values than we have. They are part of Nature as we are and Nature impels all sentient beings
with the Will to Survive and that survival mechanism is bourne out in the same way across all species in Nature. It is a function of Nature.
I call it Violent action. Thus my belief that the essence of the multiverse is Violent action. Now understand that from this Violent action things are
born, life is carried on. It's the same thing as saying Life feeds on Life. Some "thing" must die so that something else can live. And there is no
way that this function of Nature is not applied across all sentient life; here on this planet or on another. Every form of life must fight and kill to
survive. So am very leary and cautious of any alien who would suggest they are friendly yet uses covert tactics for communicative purposes. It suggest
to me that there is an ulterior motive on their part.
It doesn't mean that love doesn't exist. Maybe the aliens love us the same way we love a good hamburger. We don't hate cows but we love the way
they taste hot off the grill.
-Euclid