Could life in solar system complicate space settlement?

I completely agree with Lucio, unless the life has 'guns' humans will roll right over it. The law will not stand in the way of money and profit and (to a lesser extent) new frontier land/opportunity will not slow down the march at all.We have no non-interference directive.

From: Lucio de Souza Coelho
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Could life in solar system complicate space settlement?

I think that - as we do on Earth - we will completely disregard
indigenous life if they are in the path of economic interests. (And
that will be particularly true if the indigenous life is just
microbial. Even the most extremist econuts here on Earth won't care at
all about the rights of bacteria.) Even if one group in space has some
concern about disturbing local life, another group will not (and I
assume that at some point there will be many groups and cultures with
diverging views and interests in space).

Sorry if my opinion sounds too cynic, but I think that it is just realistic.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:11 AM, brooksn wrote: