Contact might be brutal, but to assume that disinterested aliens with a whole galaxy to fight over would be more particularly vicious to Earth than Earth’s people are to one another … she thinks that’s naive. Aliens won’t care about religion, or regional self-determination, or any of the other reasons humans invent to kill each other. Destroying the world probably won’t even create shareholder value for aliens. As long as there’s all that space out there, nobody’s going to have as much stake in destroying Earth as Earthlings do.
