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Originally Posted by dav3
I understand where you are coming from, and it's easy to think that ET's would be shitty beings like humans. However, when I go outside and see squirrels playing in the trees, I don't take aim with a BB gun and try to see how many headshots I can get. I'll watch them chase each other, running around enjoying life and whatnot. That's pretty much the same for anyone that isn't a budding serial killer.
Humans, for the most part, only kill animals out of necessity. But what if we didn't have to depend on killing animals for food? We would probably not be so aggressive towards the 'lower' life-forms here at that point.
So let's assume that ET's don't eat humans, and that they don't need to round us up and use our carcasses for anything. They will most likely be super-efficient in pretty much everything they do, meaning that they probably won't kill without reason. Although, if their TV's are powered by human blood, we are fucked!
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Well, humans don't need to run factory farms and cattle feed lots to survive, but they do and a majority of people could care less. Granted we don't shoot squirrels as you say, but we have arbitrarily chosen certain animals to be treated like shit, and others to be spared cruel treatment. So will the aliens make the same choice with us? Will aliens treat us like we treat dogs, or will they treat us like we treat chickens and cattle?
I would agree that the best we could hope for is that aliens see us as so beneath them that they don't even bother to stop and interfere, they simply keep on flying by and don't give us a second look.
There may be something to the point about TV. It's possible there is one thing humans do that the aliens will find really entertaining, the same way we find it hysterical when a cat chases a laser pointer. Maybe some sport or activity will really captivate the aliens and they'll spare us.