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I'm with you on this. Until proven otherwise I'm going to assume that we're very, very special, maybe even the point of the whole thing, that all of it is necessary just so we can be here. More of an excuse to not mess up what little we do have control over.

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I can't see how one can come to such conclusion. We know that there are trillions of stars, and an even greater number of planets, in the universe. We know that life can start relatively easily on some planets, as we know it happened at least once. Out of trillions, there must be at least millions of planets that "look like" ours out there. How can one conclude "we are very very special" given that information? It's illogical to me.

An important part of GP's comment was "until proven otherwise"

We have no proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet.

Not who you are responding to, but millions out of trillions is ‘we are very very special’ by any definition of the word, right?

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