Extraterrestrial intelligence and original sin

C.S. Lewis

These speculations may seem irrelevant, since we do not know if extraterrestrial intelligence exists. In fact, the probability of its existence is 50%, as I explained in a previous post, by which I mean that we know nothing, that we might as well flip a coin to decide. However, some serious theologians and science fiction authors have raised this question, so it may not be absurd to discuss it here.

Jean Jacques Rousseau asserted that man is good by nature, but society makes him evil. All the evidence we have refutes him. In every attempt made to correct this situation by modifying social structures, for example, in the French Revolution (which introduced the guillotine); in the Russian Revolution (which introduced the Gulag); and in German National Socialism (which introduced gas chambers); things have gotten worse. It is clear that we are prone to evil by nature, although we may also be capable of great heroism. That inclination to evil is a consequence of what we call original sin.

The origin of violence

Pitirim Sorokin

On the question of violence and evil in society there are three fundamental theories:

1. Every human being is a battlefield between good and evil and carries with him strong tendencies towards evil and violence. It is necessary to educate him in moral values, ​​to teach him to control his impulses.
2. Man is good by nature, society makes him bad. Education must try to keep us as much as possible in our original natural state, the good savage. This is the theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
3. Man is good by nature, everything bad is a consequence of a poorly focused education. The solution is education in the gender ideology, which is dominant today.

What does science say (in this case, Sociology)?

One of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, the Russian-American Pitirim Sorokin, wrote the following in his book Society, Culture and Personality (Chapter VI, Factors of Solidarity and Antagonism):