A sincere question for the folks hoping that the aliens are here to save humans from oppression and suffering
Before you downvote this, please I implore you to take three minutes to just read this post and give it some sincere consideration.
The average human today works long hours for minimal pay and is denied basic healthcare, housing and insurance. There is no doubt that countless humans on this planet are suffering a great deal.
And yet, nowhere on earth is the suffering greater and the cruelty more unbearable than on factory farms and slaughterhouses. The average layer hen spends all her life in a cage so cramped she can't even walk or spread her wings. Billions of male chicks are killed each year because they are not profitable to the egg industry. The average sow spends all her life in a cage so tiny, she can't even turn around. She's forcibly impregnated over and over so that her babies can be sold for meat when they are merely 4 or 5 months old. She never sees the sky until the day of her slaughter. The average cow is forcibly impregnated over and over and her babies taken away from her for veal and leather. She is milked constantly, until her udders swell to thrice their normal size and she collapses from exhaustion. Factory farms are breeding almost 100 billion animals a year to cater to the demands of the 8 billion humans on earth. 99% of livestock in the USA and 70% of livestock in Europe are factory farmed. Not to forget the trillions of marine animals being consumed a year, to the point that marine ecosystems are on the brink of collapse.
An animal doesn't suffer any less than a human, wouldn't you agree?
Before you think to yourself, "but lions and tigers eat other animals" - Unlike predators, most humans can thrive on a vegan diet - we can get all the nutrients and proteins we need from plants (unless you happen to suffer from multiple allergies)
If you're thinking "well plants feel pain too" - just think about the amount of crops that are grown to feed the billions of livestock being bred every year. We actually save more plants if we eat the plants directly, rather than feeding them to the animals being bred for slaughter.
If there's anyone thinking "God says it's ok to eat meat"... do you really feel that an all-loving God would look at the animals suffering on factory farms and the violence in slaughterhouses and approve of what we're doing? Or would God want us to show them kindness?
If humans want to be saved from suffering, maybe first we should recognize that animals deserve to be free from suffering as well? The suffering of animals is unnecessary and avoidable, if we would all just make kinder choices. We don't have to be a species that exploits and kills trillions of innocent animals every year.
Peace.