If we were able to communicate with an alien society...

If we were able to communicate with an alien society, what would be the one thing that would prevent us from having peaceful relations with them?

Short answer? Sup Forums

Trump

Ourselves

Human instinct to fear and/or eliminate what's different/what they don't understand + countries cut from the world/with poor education/ poor understanding of the world having the niclear power to destroy what they fear

Impossible to say, since an alien society would be, well, alien. Even if we could communicate, our cultures could be so dramatically different that they couldn't peacefully interact.

they probably have oil

space oil

usa gonna get em

greed

fuck off space niggers - were full

this

nigger culture

This mindset
Which is basically the passive version of this

Jews. Because ayy lmaos could not be bribed, they would name the jews, and jews would rather orchestrate a new world war (even if it means end of humanity nuclear apocalypse) than be found out. We can't have peaceful relations with any extraterestial race until all jews are exterminated.

JEWS

Yes

> Implying Aliens would not also be greedy

People like me probably.
>aliums come down
>wind up in blue-collar area because high density of industry
>assume we're the industrius and advanced sub-race
>see a bunch of dudes with tattoos and/or massive beer guts
>they ask why we have different markings
>social class, political/religious denotation, caste identifiers?
>nah, just felt like it
>o-okay earth men
>what do you do aside from work
>drink
>drink what?
>alcohol
>alcohol? isn't that toxic to humans
>yup
>why then?
>feel like it
>guy lights up cigarette
>what's that?
>cigarette
>what's in it?
>nicotene, maybe fiberglass, carcinogens, probably other toxic crap, I dunno
>you don't know what's in them
>nope
>why then?
>feel like it
>okay, why do you work then? what is the end goal? advancement, human betterment, science, to join galactic space consortium?
>to get enough money to drink, smoke and get ink
>aliums fuck off because they ran into us savages first
>go talk to our overlords
>they're only concerned with oil and guns
>why?
>so no one else can have them
>now give us your tech so we can be the only ones with it
>why?
>fuck china
>what's a china?
>people we don't like
>why?
>we owe them money
>if you have all the oil and guns, why do you owe them money?
>because we don't want to pay them
>why?
>because our resources are ours, not theirs
>...
>aliums fuck off as far as possible and tell everyone not to go there
>high caste is selfish and violent, low caste is selfish and poison themselves for fun
Basically, we'd be the equivalent of Klingons or Space Orks.

Think about it. One example: an alien society could consider killing us to be totally normal, and not be capable of understanding why we don't want to be killed nor care about being killed themselves. We could not interact peacefully with such a society short of rolling over and being killed.

That's a lot like the anthill analogy. I think it'd be more like Jane Goodall becoming an advocate. Then again, the world is full of assholes and it's entirely plausible that the universe is too. So it really depends on who shows up (or announces themselves) first.

FUCK OFF, SPACE NIGGERS!

If Aliens would be greedy i doubt that there would be any ressources left for us since their technology is/would be advanced enough to annihilate us all in an instant and take everything for themselves , if aliens wouldn't be peaceful , we'd already be dead.

>Implying we have anything they want.

Why would they , we already are a hundread year late on technology due to human greed keeping progress from happening and most things we got were based on them, if they would want natural ressources I doubt they would or are taking them without our conscent/without being peaceful

>Implying they cant get resources from other uninhabited worlds

stoners running up screaming "AYYY LMAO" at them

religion, border, "races", pretty much anything we can use to call a fellow human the "other"

They probably wouldn't like football

In all truth, the one thing that would prevent us from having peaceful relations with them would be the Middle East.
The jihad would extend to the visitors, as they would most likely tells that our religions are all a bunch of bunk.
They (middle east) are probably the reason disclosure hasn't happened yet to begin with, as we sure as hell have had visitors.