Leave E.T. Alone

Hi Folks,
   I'm gonna change my demeanor a bit, I started this blog off to inform adults about matters that I felt were worthwhile of debate, what I was actually doing was ranting at you as if you were uneducated schoolchildren and I was your monitor in detention hall.   Well no more, I say enough of that, henceforth I will address you with respect and hopefully you will have opinions on the matters I probe on my blog.
   This week, E.T. and our strides to contact it.   You ever heard the old saying, "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should"?   Well I think this is a good parable for the great E.T. hunt, after all curiosity did KILL the cat. LOL.   Why do I feel this way, well it's got nothing to do with human curiosity, nor the expense.   What it comes down to is simple logical reasoning.   In our galaxy alone it is more than likely reasonable to assume that there is life, possibly even carbon based, sentient life capable of the same missteps and foolishness as us.  Do we really want to meetup with a society that may be a few years more advanced than us technologically but who may be more ruthless than us?
   I think that we are spaced out just beyound the point of reaching each other for good reason or maybe it's just very good luck on our part.   Suppose we had a galactic neighbor we could reach, "how well do we get along with each other on our own blue marble", imagine if we had a neighbor with something we wanted but they didn't wish to trade or even worse they were a few steps slower than us on the evolutionary timeline.   Do you really think for one minute we would not fuck them out of what we wanted because we could take it, I have no doubts and you should not either.
   A better point than that, when was the last time you invited a complete stranger into your home?  These creatures we are so desperately searching for may be capable of killing us without us even knowing it or even attempting to do it.   Say for example, they look like us, act like us and we get past the language issues.   We invite them here en mass,  We dissect a few of them secretly and we don't find any reason why we cannot assimilate.  Someone along the way forgets, by accident or accidentally on purpose to examine a tiny enzyme from these beings.  Suddenly fifty years down the road it begins to become apparent that we are not compatible with them.   We die off and they inherit the earth,  yeah sounds funny but it is entirely possible.   No endeavor man undertakes is foolproof, change\ chaos are the only constants in the universe.   There is very little order to anything just take a look around sometime and really pay attention and you'll see it.
AMF...