'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.