Glad I found your post! I wrote about how Astronaut, Leroy Chiao said something similar a few weeks back.
I hate when they talk like that! It is so cold and removed from, well from being human. I'm very aware of the fact that all of the creature comforts I enjoy, I do so because I live in a society, or amongst other humans, if you will. And I love hot showers. So we humans have to stick together!
I call bullshyte on this "We're primitive, we deserve to be wiped out" crappola! If anyone should be blamed - it's our leaders, both shadow and otherwise. Their greed and certainty of superiority has run a great majority of us aground, so of course people are desperate and crazy-cakes. It's the power players who are to blame for the sad state of humanity! We damn sure as well know that they haven't been listening to "We the People" for quite some time now.
/END RANT
I think there could be some alien races that might cause harm, but as history seems to show there could be others that would help us.
Indeed. I find it hard to believe that advanced lifeforms have all found their way to brutish exploitation.
It's funny. Here we have people stating that we are primitive. If that is the case, then our hypotheses, guesses and suppositions would also be grounded within our primitive experience. In other words, what folly, guessing at how advanced civilizations would view us!