The Enlightened One
Contrarian
When he claims it would be obvious that they are here for one. What if they wanted secrecy? He completely rules that out(or fails to even think of that).
If they are conversing with humans that throws out the idea of secrecy, especially as you seem to be displaying it over the net
Personally I feel that the statement is a 're-route' to a fallacy based on lack of knowledge on the subject...
He also seems to think they would be for plundering resources like we are. Advanced ETs have more than enough resources for anything they want to do.
Now it seems as if you are being limited in your thinking. The three races that you speak of are not representative of the entire universal populace. Just because they have advanced intelligence does not exalt them from the physical restrictions of the material world.(The spiritual plane does not apply here as not all advanced races would be able to manipulate it, otherwise the reasoning for it requires even more limited thinking). Who is to say that there aren't species out there that have used up thier resources to create interstellar travel and need to 'refuel' at times lol. Barbaric as it may be, the possability still exists as not all races would develop the same as others technologically, that thought process is too naive.
They dont use oil or very finite resources to power their ships. lol
That YOU know of... lawlz
Nowhere does he mention possible enlightened races.
Not explicitly, but it is implied. That is what the whole artical was about. Lack of knowledge of a race is the only reason that he threw them out as possabilities. If he didn't acknowlege enlightened races then he wouldn't even be warning that they may be hostile :areyoucra
Nowhere does he mention pure evil races(such as reptiles).
Once again, he does imply the possability. Hence the warning that they may plunder for resources, or enslave, or annihilate.
They were too marred with garbage for that.
That is only a matter of personal opinion, as many will find our posts marred with so called garbage.
He seems to only relate them to us. As they are ALIENS, some are quite different than us.
Hawking fully acknowledges that they would be VERY different from us, both in form and thinking. Also, as a counter arguement I have read nothing in your posts that doesn't relate the greys, nordics, or reptillians to ideas or traits found on earth...
The nordics way of explaining his intelligence about ETs is "hes naive". and they also say his thought on the issue were mind controlled into action.
Just as theirs may have been you have no way of knowing that they are not being controlled by a more dominant race.
I do wonder what he wrote about them that didnt get media attention. It was said he was feverishly changing his itinerary prior to releasing it.
This also peaks my interest, as his speech takes a long time to be produced coherently due to his illness, there could have been insights that he may have been wishing to share but was unable to.