Would they be more civilized? Would they be smarter and kinder?
Judging by human beings … I say no. You can say yes, but here’s why I think no.
One, Aliens would have to be VERY different from humans, and I don’t mean “Dr Who” Time Lord type “alien”. It’d have to be completely different.
You take a look at current countries, like the UK, like Scotland, like the US, like China, even Afghanistan. These are all countries that have a LONG…LONG…History behind them. Yet, they are probably some of the worst countries “human rights” wise. How, as an example, does the UK, with such a long History behind them, still end up with Boris Johnson? How does in 2021, the UK and Scotland, end up with such rampant racism, transphobia, sexism, hypocrisy in BOTH major parties? HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN!
Like Churchill was a old racist, but at least, he got his people through. Johnson is racist and so is his party, but also he’s not gotten the UK through literally ANYTHING, without it being a complete fiasco.
How does a country like the US, whose entire reason to leave the UK was because they wanted to practice their religions freely and without persecution. All these years later, end up electing people who want their people to be like the people they were escaping in the first place? That’s why the forefathers had the “FORE”-sight “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
But then you look at a young country like New Zealand.
Strongly progressive with a lot of modern issues. The amount of people who want to live there, would probably be more than any other country.
So would a older culture than human beings, and possibly older than the Earth, be more progressive? Be kinder? I personally don’t think so, haha. If we judge anything to do with Earth and Human Beings, then no. This is why I’m saying for “aliens” need to be more and completely different than human, to be progressive.
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New Zealand’s being progressive now does not wipe out it past treatment of Maori people. I love the place but they too have a mixed history.
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I thought I had replied, what you’ve said it very true too!
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I reckon that being progressive is not a recipe for success given the way it is enacted currently. We are trying to be progressive by trying to eradicate and compensate for what those who came before us did whilst committing new atrocities.
Humanity is such a fragile and flawed thing when you think about it.
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