What if there is suffering in other planets too? If we will annihilate ourselves we won’t be able to help the other planets?

For some of you it might sound like a strange question, however we feel obligated to address every question we have been asked.

It is possible that there are more sentient beings suffering somewhere in the universe on other planets. But we don’t think that this possibility, that we are not sure how likely it is anyway, could be a serious argument for the exploitation on this planet to go on.

We can’t really balance all the suffering on planet earth with a chance that there are other life forms, and that these other life forms are sentient and that they live on reachable planets and that we could somehow help them. It is statistically so unlikely that unfortunately it seems more like an excuse. A way to feel morally o.k. with a very cruel decision - to leave this world as it is.

Don’t you think it is ironic that someone, who up until now dealt with campaigns of small scale industries in his country alone, is raising the entire universe as a counter argument for putting an end to all the suffering in the world?

Even if we’ll go with this hypothetical situation, it is very unlikely that activists would be the first to be able to reach other planets and more likely it will happen only after humans will settle down there. In that case it is pretty obvious that humans would suck and squeeze everything they can out of those planets just as they do on this one, which is their home and their children’s home. What makes you think they won’t do the same on other planets if they got the chance?

They will do the same as they always did, still do and will never stop doing as long as we don’t stop them, they will destroy everything on their way to another pleasure.
Throughout history humans have literally, exploited everything. Blacks, whites, women, children, horses, elephants, bears, cows, fish, chickens, everything on this planet!
All of the above share the same genes with humans. Do you really think that a species that tortures and murders its own kind, will save and won’t exploit creatures from another planet?
Don’t you think humans will experiment the new creatures or lock the "exotic creatures" in a zoo?

If there are sentient creatures on other planets that humans could reach in the future, then humans will be their nightmare not their saviors.
So those of you who feel it’s a realistic option that humans would reach other stars which are inhabited with sentient creatures, should be more motivated by it to end this world before humans could reach them too...