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[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'd use the term unlikely rather then selfish. The universe has no emotional mandates.

But agree the odds of no other life are low. Odds of intelligence less so. But the lack of it on earth. Is hardly evidence of non existence.