Is It OK to Talk to Aliens?

If we find one alian species on satasiti, then that would mean that we should make a a abation up date on our subjective probability of terrestrial intelligences in the galaxy. And at the moment, we don't know. We don't have any information about them. But if you find some aliens at tour city, that's about 12 light years from here, then we should expect that there to be lots of themd, lots of them near by. If there're so many alians out there, and eriit's very unlikely that nobody is aggressive, you get a conundrum. How come we're still here? It's sort of like an inverse firmy