Quote Originally Posted by KOOPS95 View Post
Remember, it is highly likely every civilized species would have this problem. Greed, lust for power, and coveting are naturally a mainstay of sentience, as they often bring the advances we know today as normal to our world.
I couldn't agree more! Nature works as it does precisely because attributes of competitiveness promotes and spurs all life forms. It is indeed the way the universe insuflates vitality in those collections of molecular complexity that we call life forms.

It is incredibly naive, in my view, to suppose an hypothetical extra-terrestrial life form to be peaceful simply because it would have better space ships and would thus be able to reach us.
Likewise, I find the notion of equating pacifism to higher intelligence to be a very strange proposition.