You don't actually mean aliens. You're talking about 'advanced' aloof beings that basically share your values but in a more sophisticated form.
I really hate this 'aliens would be disgusted at out foolishness' meme.
There's no reason to think that. That's how you, with your particular disposition that some proportion of humans share, would react if you were teleported to a flying saucer in orbit- shake your head and cluck your tongue.
You're projecting on to aliens to make your own view look more sophisticated by comparison.
Now, I don't know how aliens would think. But when we look at bacteria, or ants, we don't point moral judgements on their actions and get annoyed when the microbes acy a certain way- and to do so has a term associated with it, anthropomorphisation, that's generally seen as a foolish mistake.
You don't get emotionally charged at the actions of microbes when you observe them because, in part, you can kind of understand what they're doing. You have a bird's eye view. You don't get angry at them for not banding together and solving their toxic waste problems. You don't shake your head and cluck your tongue at their foolishness. If we're going to anthopomorphise aliens, we should at least get the situation to something of comparable scale.
I really hate this 'aliens would be disgusted at out foolishness' meme.
There's no reason to think that. That's how you, with your particular disposition that some proportion of humans share, would react if you were teleported to a flying saucer in orbit- shake your head and cluck your tongue. You're projecting on to aliens to make your own view look more sophisticated by comparison.
Now, I don't know how aliens would think. But when we look at bacteria, or ants, we don't point moral judgements on their actions and get annoyed when the microbes acy a certain way- and to do so has a term associated with it, anthropomorphisation, that's generally seen as a foolish mistake.
You don't get emotionally charged at the actions of microbes when you observe them because, in part, you can kind of understand what they're doing. You have a bird's eye view. You don't get angry at them for not banding together and solving their toxic waste problems. You don't shake your head and cluck your tongue at their foolishness. If we're going to anthopomorphise aliens, we should at least get the situation to something of comparable scale.