Originally Posted by ravens_cry

"When it rains, it rains on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust has stolen the justs umbrella."
Lord Bowen.
Why would they have to erase these nasty attributes? What is the mechanism that takes out the evil ones? What we call evil often depends on whether it happens to us or someone else. A billion year old civilization is going to care about one thing, survival. There is no way they are going to let some whippersnapper race take their place as prima donna's of the universe.Sure, they just might be peaceful and cooperative, within culture/species, but so are ants,who are quite xenophobic.
I don't believe in Utopias, and efforts to create them tend to end in failure. Not in a million years, not in a billion years.