Do you consider this intuition to be a reason that people should be wary of making this type of argument? Or maybe specifically avoid the word “colonize”?
Maybe something like “populate the galaxy” would be better, as it emphasizes that there are no native populations whose members would be harmed by space colonization?
Do you consider this intuition to be a reason that people should be wary of making this type of argument? Or maybe specifically avoid the word “colonize”?
Maybe something like “populate the galaxy” would be better, as it emphasizes that there are no native populations whose members would be harmed by space colonization?
Or “fill the universe/galaxy with life”.