If we make contact with aliens its because they're able to contact us, which means they're way more technologically advanced than us.

They probably also went through some sort of an evolution process and are probably all too familiar with predation and violent power struggles, whether or not that it's in their distant past.

So they're likely equipped to cope with human hostilities and not niave enough to be caught off guard by it. We're not enslaving any extraterrestrials.

>but can't comprehend,

This is the key point, if we can't comprehend the existence of something, how the hell would we figure out how to look for it?

> That’s why it always annoys me when “scientists” always want to find a planet in a “habitable zone” to search for life, but that doesn’t make any sense,

Imagine no-one had ever seen crabs before, then imagine we went to the beach and discovered crabs. Then one of us says, "I wonder if crabs exist anywhere else on the planet?"

Where would you look first?

Do you check the centre of an active volcano on the off chance that some crabs have properties that allows them to live in lava, despite the fact we have no idea what properties they would need or whether it's possible for those properties to exist?

Would you look in clouds in case gas crabs exist in clouds. Again no idea what a cloud crab would look like, if it even looked like anything and no idea how we would detect such a thing is even there. Solid demonstration of thinking outside the box though.

Or... do you go to another beach and look there?

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