What is good?

What is evil?

Generally, you could say that Mother Teresa was good, and that Hitler was evil. This definition is flawed however, because it's based on comparing these people to the conception of 'the average man' and his/her average levels of virtue and malice. But on a cosmic level, who's to say how our 'average joe' would measure up to other races?

In pretty much every space based sci-fi movie, tv-show or book, alien races are not only defined by a certain shaped prosthetic glued to their face, but their culture and lifestyle also. There's warlike races like the Klingons or logical peaceful races like the Vulcans. Of course these races are based on variations of our own values, so they depict our version of what a peaceful or warlike race would be like. But what if, when compared to other races in reality, we were like Klingons? Or worse than Klingons? What if every other race out there abhors killing of any kind [plants included], eats only sustainable materials and never ever sees violence as en acceptable solution? Of course it could go the other way. We could very well be the hippies of the universe, while other races eat their young and live out their lives as one big kill crazy rampage. Their dictators would make Hitler look like Benny Hill.

Does any of this even matter? If you believe in any kind of higher power then yes, it does. I'm an agnostic,I believe there could still be something out there. Who am I to decide that there isn't? If it weren't for modern science I'd have no knowledge of mitochondria and the like [not that a few high school biology classes counts as knowledge, but you get my drift].
So assuming that it's quite possible that there is quite possibly a god or something somewhere, how do we, as a race measure up? Does this god even care? Perhaps the entire universe is just a funky bit of bacteria under a gigantic life-form's toenail. Perhaps we're just some alien race's version of big brother, living in some kind of matrix-esque set up for their entertainment. Whoah dude.

The problem with thinking about all this though, is that we have no way of knowing anything. So it's pretty much pointless, unless you want to give yourself a headache, make yourself depressed, or perhaps feel better about doing something evil. Just don't try to use this as an excuse when you get arrested.