Bernd Clemens Huber

Consider the following (for the purpose of avoiding unnecessary further delay) to be an extremely informal pre-editing version of my response and explanation attempts:
 

TO BE EDITED:
 

Please allow me to shortly explain how one ought to determine ethical value.

For the emergence of the existence of an ethically relevant value or summand in this universe, it takes 3 components: Something that gives rise to, generates the ethically relevant stimulus, then the presence of sentience capable of receiving experiential stimuli, and finally a connecting structure for communicating the ethically relevant stimulus from its generator to a sentience, so that it is received by at least some 1 sentience. And only when all of these 3... (read 6277 more words →)

So many disagreements to my message, and not a single attempt to explain which point on the basis of what reasoning is disagreed with, so that I can refute it by specifying the fallacy in such reasoning, but if I had to guess, then cognitive dissonance should explain the origin of most of these disagreements:

"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information, and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those... (read more)

There were 65 responses, so about 1% to 2% of all replied. Generally it were understanding and agreeing response sentiments, except for Robin Hanson. Here is a list of those that did respond, and their responses:
 

Center for Ethics and Technology / M.Sc. Mariska Bosschart
Initiative for Interstellar Studies / John I Davies
The Life You Can Save Organization
Eurogroup for Animals
TED Talks
Royal Institute of Philosophy
Vegan Society
Prof. Chris Impey
Prof. (apl.) Dr. Michael Schetsche
Chris Williamson
Prof. Dr. Greg Matloff
Prof. Dr. Christopher E. Mason
UPF - Centre for Animal Ethics
European Union
Prof. Dr. Tyler Cowen
European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Prof. Dr. Robin Dale Hanson
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Conscious Entities
Mario Livio
EarthSky
Paul Gilster
Südwestrundfunk
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Dr.... (read 4444 more words →)

This would be wonderful, because it would help reduce the probability of the greatest catastrophe in human history.

As much as I would like to agree with this (since that would mean the existence of a far smaller upper bound to the worst that humanity could ever do), it is scientifically objectively false. The true, also very urgent, and by any mundane solely earth crust matters related entirely unchallenged, uniquely highest threat that humanity will ever encounter is that humanity ends up (in whatever manner, intentional or by accident) kick-starting evolution(s) of life on other celestial bodies, especially if that happens to cascade further and further by natural means such as litho-panspermia or... (read 3388 more words →)

There's some disingenuous (or at least ignorant) framing in there, but ultimately, the message insight needs to get out there and be taken extremely serious, and I'm slowly but surely running out of suitable contact points, and so alongside the contact search, after some months of daily contacting without results, I extended my approach so that if I find any other contact points during the search that wouldn't be much of a detour (just few minutes) of adding them, I decided to do so, and there is a variety of lines of reasoning by which that can make sense, as the main point (which if it'd finally happen were to obsolete my... (read more)

Okay, I'll lay out 1 major argument to explain my point, and maybe that'll be sufficient.

Let's assume first that - according to what the current scientific body of studies & analysis appear to support - sufficiently many general forms of evolutions of life - in whatever manner they may play out on exoplanets or also beneath the surface of ice (exo-)moons - dominantly aggregate (with among all ethically relevant phenomena in the cosmos by magnitudes highest priority & therefore solely decision-making determining) gargantuan levels of suffering
(i) before (if ever at all) not only a human-intelligence-like species eventually may emerge in the midst of them, but also one where its individuals have suitable... (read 1249 more words →)

Because that would be impossible for the overwhelming vast majority of all evolutions of life that ever were to happen across the universe as result of humanity's direct & indirect forwards-contamination mistakes (let alone humanity's inability to do anything about evolution on earth in the past). I shouldn't have needed to explain this simple fact. Next time give yourself time to think about the reasons yourself first. The many foolish downvotes on my initial comment really demonstrate the lack of topical education, intelligence and ethical maturity of not insignificantly many on this forum. But I guess I should start expecting that, since it's only the 3rd millennium and 21st century so far,... (read more)

For humanity to try to spread physical space exploration across the universe were to be among the very most macro-criminal worst unethical courses of humanity's trajectory that it could at all possibly take, and - especially after having by now sent e-mails to almost 5.000 worldwide institutions and professors within the last half year to emphatically warn them about this impending danger - I'm baffled how ethics-detached scientists still dare to even advocate or advertise and support such astronomically gargantuan, massive crimes worse than all crimes from humanity's past together, but it is worthy of condemnation and absolutely ought to stop as soon as possible, and here is 1 among many reasons... (read 695 more words →)