Okay that’s fair in the sense that most people haven’t considered it. How about this: Most people don’t care, haven’t thought about it and wouldn’t object. Most people who have thought about the possibility of spreading life to other planets have not even so much as considered and rejected the idea that the natural state of life is bad, if they oppose spreading life to other planets it’s usually to protect potential alien life. If a world is barren, they wouldn’t see any objection to terraforming it and seeding it with life.
I don’t know exactly how representative these articles are, but despite being about the ethical implications of such a thing, they don’t mention my ethical objection even once, not even to reject it. That’s how fringe such concerns are.
This is totally different than my impression.
Okay that’s fair in the sense that most people haven’t considered it. How about this: Most people don’t care, haven’t thought about it and wouldn’t object. Most people who have thought about the possibility of spreading life to other planets have not even so much as considered and rejected the idea that the natural state of life is bad, if they oppose spreading life to other planets it’s usually to protect potential alien life. If a world is barren, they wouldn’t see any objection to terraforming it and seeding it with life.
I don’t know exactly how representative these articles are, but despite being about the ethical implications of such a thing, they don’t mention my ethical objection even once, not even to reject it. That’s how fringe such concerns are.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-life-milky-comets.html
https://medium.com/design-and-tech-co/spreading-life-beyond-earth-9cf76e09af90
https://bgr.com/science/spreading-life-solar-system-nasa/