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Originally Posted by Ross 54
It seems that on the way to creating a technology sufficiently advanced to travel the galaxy, one capable of destroying the civilization on the home planet is created first. If a species doesn't destroy its own civilization, it may not be irredeemably violent, and may live to travel the galaxy. Ross
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And it seems to me that there is no evidence that this is true. There are in fact many counter-examples in science fiction (not that this proves anything).
Maybe the civilization consists of violent, competitive carnivores, that developed their technology trying to kill each other off, and the most violent of them all went out to conquer the galaxy.
Maybe they are extreme xenophobes, who love each other, but hate any intelligent lifeform that isn't them.
Maybe it is like the anthill that JustAFriend - they don't recognize us as intelligent beings (
everyone knows that only plasma creatures can be intelligent and that intelligence can not arise in "solid" forms).
Now, I don't know that any of these are possible, and maybe the OP is right. But the bottom line is we don't know and anything beyond that is just wild speculation.