@sarek,
sarek;160771 wrote:If there are aliens out there I expect them to be more than simply technologically evolved.
What will distinguish them from us much more is that they will be morally evolved. A technologically advanced race that is not stable is very unlikely to ever reach the stars.
Moral stability and the need for absolute equality for all is rapidly becoming the dominant factor in our fitness landscape and so it will be for any aliens visiting us.
Strong morality equals a strong civilisation, agreed.
Now whether their morality is human morality is another thing.
Survival of the fittest at any cost?
Master race?
Enforced and selective breeding?