“We are an incredibly-flawed species, filled with lust and avarice and anger and greed, given to revenge and gossip and violence and hate.”
We have exactly one example of a sapient species: us. Just because our intellect allows us to perceive that humans could and should be much better than they are doesn’t mean we have any idea where we fall on a good-bad spectrum compared to any other hypothetical sapient species.
Certainly we could be the vilest of the vile. “They slay their own unborn young, we will isolate and shun them.’ Or saintly. “They waste resources healing sick loved ones when they should just eat them. Ignore these rubes.”
Freegards
Without God we are so screwed.