>>10899391Either we are the first life in the universe or some other planet was. Either they survived and we inherit their responsibility or they killed themselves (or otherwise died out).
We inherit responsibilities that they do not meet. If they could contact us, but didn't, then we inherit the responsibilities laterally.
Our responsibility, at this point in our development is to learn how we will take responsibility for all the civilizations to come after us—provided we can get to outer space.
We have a responsibility to not colonize any planet until we can prove that it would not have evolved life (we'll see why later). We have some level of responsibility to not intervene deeply in its evolution. As such, we have a responsibility to practice animal rights until such time as we can map out the actual form of the prior responsibility.
We have a responsibility to make contact with any sapient race before it has a chance to destroy its biosphere. This is true for similar reasons as the prior set of responsibilities, but for subtler, more overt, and more precise reasons. But as we will be the aliens at that time, we have a responsibility to not punish that species by making contact with it.
At this point you are now aware that either I'm a representative of an alien race, or you are evil, or else we are not the first species to infer all this and thus bear no responsibility for these formalizations.
Since "evil" is a local maxim, we can infer that I am not evil. As such, we can infer that I'm either a representative of all life prior to this moment or a representative of the Earth. Peace talks can now begin, but we have no idea what they would look like.
TL;DR: We know we're either the first species to attain this level of technological development because any ayy presence implies full ayy presence. Regardless of FTL, they will send out probes with these (types of) values.
