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Question: If extraterrestrials chose you to be the voice for the planet!.!.!?
!.!.!.!.and asked you to give them one good argument why they shouldn't wipe out our entire civilization what would you say!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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First of all, I think it is very human to assume extrterrestrials would want to destroy us!. That is the human perception, is it not!? All of our movies (with the except of ET), portrays alien life as being hostile and wanting to take our planet over!.

What if they exist and have been coming here for the last two million years, manipulating our genes and DNA and making small, but important changes to our cultures!? What if, in fact, they are benvolent!? And what if, the human race, is nothing but an alien controlled genetic experiment!? What if WE OURSELVES were the aliens, put here on this earth millions of years ago - only to forget we were the original ET's!?

What I think the hostile alien concept really is, is about our own base fears of who we are - for we know that if we were the ones to discover another planet, it would be US who would have such hostile and war-like intentions!.

In fact, any civilization which has mastered interstellar travel, must be far advanced from our own, and I would expect, they were far superior to us in intellect and in social evolution - they had learned the values by survival, that peace is far more beneficial to life than war is - and so it is WE ourselves, who are the barbarians - it is WE who would take over worlds in a hostile manner!. And maybe this is why God has put us on this isolated little spec of dust so far away from everyone else that we pose no danger to them!.

But let us suppose your assumption is right!. They want to know why they should not wipe us out and they are looking for one good reason not to do it!.

The answer I would give to them is: LOVE!. Love is the reason why we should not be wiped out!. For any beings capable of demonstrating LOVE are worth keeping around - if for no other reason, than to see, if we can get beyond the stage of barbarism we now live in!. The human race represents vast promises for the future, if we can master our negative ways, and act more like the LOVE that we can be!. To wipe out such beings (as us) would preclude the advancements in self realization and technology, that we could achieve which could and would add to the sum total of all accumulated civilizations in the cosmos!. To wipe us out now, would be like cutting your nose off to spite your face!.!.!.killing great potential is never the answer of an advanced civilization, but only the answer of barbarians!. That would be my response to them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I could use the same argument some use to try to protect the many species we are now wiping out by our polution, expansion, etc!. - that diversity of species is of value in itself!. We might find out in the future that a species of insect or plant has or had a unique chemical or whatever that we might really need but cannot have because we wiped out the species!. If the human species is wipped out maybe they might be harming themselves in the long run!. I would make that argument and hope it works better on them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you read the papers and news websites and there are all kinds of horrible things going on in the world!. people killing others, stealing, politicians using their positions for their own goods, CEOs of companies that feel the money is for them only!. all kinds of things!. but i look at my neighbors and my coworkers!. they are good, decent people!. (well, most of them anyway) they work hard, they help others, they are friendly and can make me laugh!. i see the young people who are really trying to make it in this world!. i see the good that is going on around me despite what is in the news!. i would tell the ETs to look at the world around us!. to really look at the individuals!. i believe that there are more good people in the world than bad and hopefully that will be enough not to get us wiped out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would want to know what's in it for them, it's natural to be selfish, they wouldn't destroy us because we are pathetic!. They would do it if it helped them in some way, even some way minuscule!. And i guess I'm avoiding the question so here's my answer!.
Whilst we are a violent bunch, our sheer mass makes the settling process all the much slower!.

Water finds it's own level!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Seriously, if they have traveled to earth, there obviously way more advanced then us!. I really dont think we are worth anything!.!.not even worth killing!?
Now answering the question - I would say "We have a long way to go in our development, come back in a few thousand years and you might gain somethin"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

How would you feel if you were in our boots!?
Come back when you have reached a conclusion!.
OR
Didn't Chuck Norris wipe you guys out!?
OR
If a tree falls in a forest with no-one around, does it make a sound!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Go ahead, make my day!."
- Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan (a!.k!.a!. Dirty Harry)

Seriously let's watch some DVDs, they will get hooked!. 1001 nights of old movies!. LOLWww@QuestionHome@Com

!.!.!.hmmm!.!.!.
were screwed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would tell them to come back in 100 years when we can finnaly get along!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Why haven't we!? because people keep questioning if we can!.Www@QuestionHome@Com