Yeah, "We're going to destroy you because you are violent."
I used to like "The Abyss" as well, until I saw the director's cut about us being evil and bad, so the aliens were going to wipe us out until they witnessed one person willing to sacrifice himself for others... Didn't these aliens understand the history they were witnessing? Going to war to end tyranny, oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust was a bad thing?
The aliens never fought amongst themselves, got along perfectly with each other, never argued with neighbors? Yeah, right.