Wow... I asked you not to dodge out by imagining that Mars could conceivably maybe have life, and you went for near-pantheism. I'm impressed. Not in a good way, mind you, but impressed.
Is it really so hard to imagine that maybe there's absolutely nothing wrong with using every resource we can find on Mars or the Moon? Is "NO!!!!" really so deeply ingrained that you are simply incapable of dealing with it on any rational level whatsoever? That's... sad.
Also, "WE DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT BE DOING" is just another sophomoric ("that which seems wise to a second-year college student but is actually just cleverly-masked foolishness", since few people seem to understand this sense of the word) way of dodging out of an ethics discussion. We never understand "everything" about what we may be doing, but, alas, you must act, even if that act is to not act. Since it applies equally to all positions and all possible actions, it is a null argument.
Is it really so hard to imagine that maybe there's absolutely nothing wrong with using every resource we can find on Mars or the Moon? Is "NO!!!!" really so deeply ingrained that you are simply incapable of dealing with it on any rational level whatsoever? That's... sad.
Also, "WE DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT BE DOING" is just another sophomoric ("that which seems wise to a second-year college student but is actually just cleverly-masked foolishness", since few people seem to understand this sense of the word) way of dodging out of an ethics discussion. We never understand "everything" about what we may be doing, but, alas, you must act, even if that act is to not act. Since it applies equally to all positions and all possible actions, it is a null argument.