I believe there ARE a lot of life, both intelligent and emerging intelligent life forms, within our Milky Way Galaxy. Will we find them? Not in many of our lifetimes. The distances involved and our own extremely short lifespan as a species preclude finding other life intelligent lifeforms.
I hope our species DOESN'T find other worlds out there in the future that are "close" enough for us to contact or visit them. Why do I say this? Because I believe it would not be good for other lifeforms to be "discovered" by humans. I believe we would be anathema to other worlds, taking our violence, greed, and diseases to them. We would garner the reputation of being Destroyers of Life and Worlds.
Just as we're destroying life and our own world today. We have not changed since we began walking on two feet and realized we had a thinking brain. From the very beginning, we have tried countless times (and still continue to do so) to destroy others of our own species. In the process, we are quickly destroying our world.
Oh, we won't destroy the Earth completely. We'll just destroy what we need to survive on Earth. We breed like voracious viruses; multiplying with extreme speed and destroying everything we touch. Like cancer cells, we spread and destroy healthy cells of our world. We're killing our world and ourselves. We're overwhelming all other lifeforms on Earth.
Our "intelligence" is nowhere to be seen. We use our "intelligence" for "progress" that ensures our pursuit of physical pleasure and material goods. We breed without thought and without responsibility. Our world today is having a difficult time providing food for all. As our human population continues to increase exponentially, we'll have less and less food and water. Earth just doesn't have enough natural resources to feed and support our ever-growing population. We are literally breeding ourselves out of existence.
We believe, or want to believe, that finding another world is our only solution. That's because we don't want to take the responsibility and do what needs to be done to maintain our world to continue to be viable for our own existence. It's too much hard work. It's more glamorous and exciting to think of "conquering" other worlds to which we can move our human population overflow. We don't want to even consider population control...even to save our lives and the lives of our children. Instead, we would rather just move the overflowing human race to other worlds until that world, too, is destroyed.
In our "expansion", I hope we don't cross paths with other lifeforms. Our presence would be the end of them. We would take our violence, greed, diseases, and selfishness wherever we go.
Just as the Europeans killed a lot of the native peoples of The Americas with their diseases, greed, violence, and selfishness, we would continue the destruction wherever we go.
It's Human Nature's strongest traits. Love, generosity, compassion, and responsibility are not traits that humans have in abundance. We have only enough of those traits to convince ourselves that we're worthy of life. We've brainwashed ourselves so completely to excuse our destructive behavior. We've done this by creating words and ideas such as Progress, Imminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, Freedom, Equality. These are the excuses we always fall on when we want to go to war and kill as many other humans as we can and help ourselves to whatever goods we can obtain. We make heroes of the people who kill the most people in war. Their names and the names of Leaders of Nations who proclaim and go to war are entered into the history books. Our human history is littered and punctuated by the wars and battles we've engaged in.
We find more reasons to go to war than we can think of reasons why we shouldn't have wars. As a species, we don't want Peace. To have peace, everyone must have enough of what each person needs to survive comfortably and safely. To have peace, everyone needs to be equal. Humans cannot tolerate Equality. As nations and as individuals, we all want to believe we're better than the other nations and everyone else. We humans DO NOT and CANNOT be happy and content to be equal in all things. We each want more and better of everything than everyone else has.
So, No, I don't want humans to find other lifeforms anywhere. Here on Earth, when we find new lifeforms and new lands that are beautiful or exciting, we immediately begin to kill or destroy them. Looks at our cities and towns. We've moved into beautiful natural areas and turned them all into ugly, smelly, noisey concrete and asphalt habitats that are unhealthy for any lifeforms.
We are extremely voracious in our consumption of all natural resources and refuse to see it as a problem stemming from our greed, overpopulation, and irresponsibility in all important and vital areas necessary for life on Earth.
Humans should not be allowed to spread out and contaminate other worlds. We should just remain on Earth until we've committed genocide deriving from our own thoughtless and selfish actions.
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