Aliens will come in peace not war.

My opponent states that I think this extremely untrue. First off, my opponent jumps to the conclusion that because I say a sleeper ship is plausible, that a whole colony is coming in it. I say again, it is more likely that if a sleeper ship is used, it will only hold a small group of people. Could have traveled any number of years, so its not very fair to jump to the number of 1 million. My opponent also suggested that on this sleeper ship, they will be observing earth. How is this possible if all of it's crew is asleep? This has all already been addressed. A sleeper vessel implies that that the alien race is incapable of acheiving near or faster than light travel. Such journeys will take a long time, millions of years are not an unreasonable suggestion. The only plausible purpose of a sleeper vessel is for colonisation. Colonisation may be peaceful, but as the vessel is heading towards earth we know that it intends conflict. The crew will likely be revived in the last stage of the journey. "I think it fair to look at what humans will do when we are in the situation to go to planets that we discover have life, or hope will have life. We will have protocol. We also have ethics. We know its not a good idea to go to a planet and just kill all the life forms on it and steal the resources. I think a highly intelligent life will have ethics also, and know right from wrong and try to do things the right way" I do not understand upon what my opponent bases this speculation, the Spanish conquest of central and south america, the Anglo-American aggression and genocide against the native Indians, the Belgian Congo, the US Conquest of Iraq. .. these are all examples where humanity has found a new region and exploited it's resources with violence. If we extrapolate from the human example we may infer that any other advanced alien race will display similar ethics. How is co-existence and genocide equally important? All of life on earth co-exists. Co-existence is a necessary part of survival and all of life will co-exist with the other life on it's planet. Genocide, on the other hand, is not important, but destructive and harmful to life. Humans frown upon genocide and other life on earth doesn't even consider genocide as a possibility. Other life will also realize how harmful and unhelpful genocide is. History and biology shows us that co-existence and conflict are of equal importance. The USA is founded upon Imperialistic violence, it only functions due to the high degree of co-operation amongst it's members. Life exists in a constant state of conflict, certain social animals may co-operate within the group, but outside the group they will compete (Competition may also occur within the group as well). It is reasonable to assume that the aliens are also a product of evolutionary conflict, and will co-operate or conflict as they need to. Co-operation with humanity is far less likely to give them a homeworld than is violence. My opponent concludes, "I don't think my opponent has made it clear that life will come for war. I believe that we only need to look at the intelligent life that we know of and compare, a. k. a. , humans. Vote Pro. " If humanity is to be used as a template it is almost a certainty that they have come for violence.