On Another Note- How would humans be likely to treat visitors from another planet?

[Just_me_Mike]

Mike don't pretend you know how I would treat anybody. Okay?

Saying you, we or anyone will continue to act as they have for how ever many years they have been alive is not telling you how you would act. It is simply presenting reality. Why would we assume to act any different?

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Mike how do you know I'm like most people? How do you know how I personally treat others? You only see words here, but you don't see the person behind the words. Maybe I'm the sweetest, soft-hearted guy in the world behind these words.

 

[Just_me_Mike]

Mike how do you know I'm like most people? How do you know how I personally treat others? You only see words here, but you don't see the person behind the words. Maybe I'm the sweetest, soft-hearted guy in the world behind these words.

??? I am confused.
I simply said we as people will most likely continue as we are now. If you are nice, you will continue to be nice, of you are mean you will continue to be mean. Human behavior is a ***** to change, even with visitors from outer space.

Now, if you would be so kind as to point out where I said Senedjem is this or that, I would appreciate it.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I told the truth. I for my part, not speaking for anyone else, would treat alien beings with respect and kindness. Just like a treat animals. Because I know we all have the same life within.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Now, if you would be so kind as to point out where I said Senedjem is this or that, I would appreciate it.

Okay Mike, maybe I misunderstood you.

 

[Engyo]

As a species we would seek to do whatever serves us best...

Careful how you say that...........

To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

[Mathematician]

A lot of misanthropes on the forum today, I see.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Aliens had to evolve and would have the traits that most animals, inclusive of humans, have. So its a safe bet that the curiousity to explore is deeply rooted in the aliens adaptive psychology to do so with the obvious benifit to exploit what new discoverings it finds. Its not just humans that subjugate those with less advantage, its a trait in almost any animal, whether its concious or a product of opportunity the effects are the same...

This is your assumption, but really you have no way of knowing. All of our experience in dealing with life forms comes from terrestrial origins. Even if we both started out as similar single cells, their psychology, if that even applies, as well as their physiology may have diverged so early in the evolutionary timeline from terrestrial life that we have absolutely no way of knowing what thought processes they may or may not possess.

To use a fictional example.
In Ender's Game, we find that the near complete xenocide of the Formics was the result of not only the two species, Human and Formic, difference in physiology, but mostly due to completely different ways of thought process and motivation for expansion.