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Why do we always assume that advanced space alien species have their shit together? Maybe they're more fucked up than we are! We're so down on our own species we usually assume that space aliens will be more enlightened than we are.
When the European settlers first came to the Americas the Native Americans might have assumed the technologically-advanced palefaces were honest, enlightened people - and they'd be wrong, right?
If I wanted to employ the tree-hugger paradigm I could argue that technology, in fact, is inversely related to moral rectitude. By that count "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day" are safer bets than "Close Encounters" or "E.T." That's why I own a gun (kidding).
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"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence." - Mahatma Ghandi
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