Why would intelligent life want to contact Earth? Is not one measure of intelligence concern for how we care for one another and the planet we live on. How would a truly intelligent extraterrestrial life form view another life form who is actively destroying their own environment and seems powerless to do anything about it? How do they view a planet that is constantly at war with one another? How to they view a people who traffic in their own children for sexual gratification? A people who abuse their mates and children. A people who are content to let others starve and go without clean water while the minority has plenty? A people who have no control their weapons of war and allow the massacre of innocents, even school children. A race of people whose highest goal and number one pursuit is wealth and profit. We are technologically advanced yes, intelligent, I'm not so sure.
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