If life is rare in the galaxy, or even unique to Earth, then as Carl Sagan says, we need to change the way we treat each other:
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“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
Something to keep in mind as we approach a national mid-term election where disagreement is fueled, and our basest instincts amplified, by a technology we don’t fully understand. All of our precious in the eyes of God and all of are wildly rare in Creation. All of us.