The Fermi Paradox - Why we haven't been contacted by aliens

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Buck

Yeah. After reading that and the stuff before it I thought, if we're the first, we would definitely claim everything for ourselves. We would be the predators. That's how it is now on Earth.

Then I basically surmised that if we were to be the big bully, if there was someone before us, they would almost certainly be the same bully.

Its a trap. We lure them here, beat them up, and take their stuff.