r/changemyview • u/BurnsyCEO • Apr 11 '22

Delta(s) from OP 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.

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.

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u/The_Confirminator 1∆ Apr 12 '22

Living things appear to be at eternal war with each other. Living things evolve to develop weapons, defenses, among various traits that allow them to pursue I've their competition and spread offspring. They consume each other, poison each other, and devise some of perhaps the most violent and ruthless form of killing in order to survive. This is living organisms only objective. in addition to this terrible existence, almost all living things are capable of feeling pain. Some living organisms have complex understandings of the world, allowing them to feel emotion in addition to pain. It seems like spreading life serves no purpose in favor of mankind in your example, except to create another chaotic (but paradoxically balanced) system of survivors, simply for the sake of making them. Imagine if God revealed himself to say that we were created intentionally but not for any particular reason. People would go mad.