Friendly, peace loving aliens have landed. How would you explain to them why humans kill each other.?

Answer 1

No reason

Answer 2

I would say that the reason is an unfortunate drawback to our ancestry - our evolution from animals. And before anyone bangs on that the cute fluffy little animals don't go around killing each other - THEY DO!!

In truth I would expect that we probably wouldn't have to explain ourselves at all, as the peace loving aliens may have advanced beyond our animalistic reactions, but I bet they've been in the same situation too.

Answer 3

Thats a loaded question. It would take more time and space than we have here. I would try and expain that we don't all kill each other and that we're still learning and unless they want to help then they can come back in about 1000 years and see where we are from there.

Answer 4

Why explain it and all that bother, when we can just kill them too? I mean what're a few more bodies in the grand scheme of things, and if they are peaceful they would NEVER expect a totally unprovoked attack.
We could cruise around in their space ship.... LIke grand theft auto interplanetary 5.

Answer 5

Anything with the technology to travel thousands of light years and thru time itself from their own existence and then be able to exist on our planet has to have the conciousness to determine killing and it's origin----Bio-Chemical processes inside the brain.

Emotions more or less begin inside two almond-shaped structures in the brain which are called the amygdala[1]. The amygdala is the part of the brain responsible for identifying threats, and for sending out an alarm when threats are identified. The amygdala is so efficient at warning us about threats, that it gets us reacting before the cortex (the part of the brain responsible for thought and judgment) is able to check on the reasonableness of the reaction. In other words, the brain is networked in such a way as to influence the action before its consequences are logically considered.
As one becomes angry the body's muscles tense up. Inside the brain, neurotransmitter chemicals known as catecholamines are released causing an experience of a burst of energy lasting up to several minutes. At the same time the heart beat increases, the blood pressure rises, and so does the rate of breathing. The face may flush as increased blood flow enters the limbs and extremities in preparation for physical action. In quick succession, additional brain neurotransmitters and hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline are released which trigger a lasting state of arousal.
But, most often the emotions to rage are stopped before getting out of control. The prefrontal cortex of the brain keeps the emotions in proportion. If the amygdala handles emotion, the prefrontal cortex handles judgment. The left prefrontal cortex can switch off the emotions. It serves in an executive role to keep things under control. Getting control of the emotion of anger means learning ways to help the prefrontal cortex get the upper hand over the amygdala so that the angry person has control over the reactions to anger feelings.
If anger has a physiological preparation phase during which the body resources are mobilized for a fight, it also has a wind-down phase as well. The body starts to relax back towards its resting state when the target of the anger is no longer accessible or an immediate threat. It is difficult to relax from an angry state very quickly. The adrenaline-caused arousal that occurs during anger lasts a very long time (many hours, sometimes days), and lowers the anger threshold, making it easier for the person to get angry again later on. It takes a rather long time for the body to return to the resting state. During this slow cool-down period the angered person is more susceptible to anger in response to even minor irritations.


Two views of human nature. The first , whereby killing is unnatural :
due to the availability of weapons
carried out by psychopaths
carried out because of evil
done for reasons of ideology
due to a high reward
and so most humans were innately reasonable and "nice" and killing is a freak occurrence.

or thae second that killing is natural due to the availability of coalitions:
carried out by all
carried out after careful assessment
done for reasons of evolutionary psychology
due to opportunity
and so killing is just part of human nature.

1% of people in the USA commit 50% of the murders.

http://www.cambridge2000.com/azara_blog/html/2005/02/20050204_why_kill.html

Answer 6

Average human IQ is 80.

Answer 7

throw the psychiatrists to the aliens. no. like special ed said, human nature. everyone is capable of killing someone, even if they dont think so.

Answer 8

We are not that smart. Hence the fact that the aliens visited us and not the other way round.

Answer 9

The easiest way to explain this to them would be by giving them a practical demonstration and shooting one of them

Answer 10

I'd make them listen to a Spice Girl CD.

Answer 11

We value our own selfish passions more than each other lives.

Then we'd kill the bas++rds, because we wouldn't believe them.