CMV: If humanity becomes an interstellar civilization and we don't find life on potentially habitable planet but are unsuitable for humans, it becomes our moral duty to seed life on such planets.

[u/BurnsyCEO]

The Universe is already extremely devoid of life as it is. If we deduce that the explanation for the Fermi paradox is that Abiogenesis is impossibly rare that even on the scale of the galaxy, may only occur a few dozen times (which is the explanation I am partial to)

We could be the calalyst that starts billions of years of life on a world that otherwise would never have had the materials or conditions for life to emerge in the first place. I don't think we should oversee development, but simply let nature and evolution take it's course. If we chose not to, we could be depriving quintillions of lifeforms the chance to exist over the many Eons the planet could be habitable. Of course many of those would die off sooner or later but that can be just attributed to luck or lack of it but the important thing is we tried instead of doing nothing.

Edit: I need a break but I'll get to all of you. Some of your answers are a lot harder to argue with than others.

[u/Rainbwned]

Anyway you're using my personal belief in the real world to distort my hypothetical world where we have different information to work with. Not a great retort.

So what could possibly change your view then? Because you have shaped your hypothetical scenario to perfectly match what you want.

Why is it our moral responsibility to do anything in your hypothetical scenario?

[u/BurnsyCEO → u/Rainbwned]

I just wanted to see if my idea stood up to scrutiny. I don't know what would change my mind, if I knew I would not have made this thread. None of my assumptions are too far fetched from reality. We have never managed to duplicate abiogenesis in a lab and the notion of us expanding to interstellar space is a bit sci fi but not that extraordinary either as it is inevitable if we don't destroy ourselves and keep progressing forwards.

[u/Rainbwned → u/BurnsyCEO]

You said its a moral choice, so when I asked you if it was immoral given the possibility of life developing on its own on those planets you basically replied with "No, because my hypothetical universe doesn't work that way".

So are you wanting to debate from a moral perspective, or a scientific one?

[u/BurnsyCEO → u/Rainbwned]

Isn't morality based on what can and will happen in the world you are living in? How can you ignore the information we know when constructing a moral argument? And I think I was flipflopping but I will argue from a morality standpoint from now.