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Hmmm I fail to understand your reasoning. I did not write this for anyone to agree or disagree with me. It is just something I imagine, and in my imagination the aliens happen to be not klingons nor their real world counterparts. In my imagination (and i guess maybe in that of the reader of my comment as well) they are sentient logical beings not being in favor of peace nor war. So in that context those beings would think, what the f are they doing, this does not make any sense!


I suppose the reasoning is that intelligent aliens perhaps would actually think that it was a good accomplishment, given that they know of much bigger wars that involve multiple planets and perhaps themselves have bombs that are capable of destroying entire planets? There's no way to know if extremely intelligent aliens would actually be peaceful or extreme beligerent dickheads. I don't think we have any evidence of a successful species even on Earth that behaves like peace-loving hippies.


In my very limited and probably naive model, Ant > crocodile > wolf > dog > human > smarterThanHumanAlien

The less evolved, the more aggressive.


There's no "more evolved" animal in your list. They are all different animals that are each perfectly evolved for the habitat they occupy (dogs are domesticated wolves, not "evolved wolves", by the way).

You could argue that humans are more "civilized" , but not more evolved. But to claim that humans are less aggressive than other animals is amusing to me. Humans are the only ones capable of (and willing to commit multiple times) war and genocide on a large scale. We may be less aggressive on an individual level, normally, but in the sense we're discussing what matters is the collective aggressiveness, of which humans are in my view the greatest by far.


If you take evolved literally as number of years of evolution, then the ants are more evolved, since they were there before humans. Of course, I meant evolved not in that way, more as civilized indeed, but also that trait is hard to define.

Indeed humans have the high score in collective aggresiveness. Group think and influencing large amounts of people appear to be the greatest strength and greatest vice at the same time of humans.




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