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Originally Posted by trebleshot

While I do think it would be arrogant and presumptuous to assume we are the only intelligent life in the universe, I also think the same way when it comes to aliens visiting us. What makes us so special?

I don't think it is anymore arrogant to think that life is exclusive to earth than to think that it is not, given that we don't even know how life on earth originated to begin with.

I think arogance comes in when we assert that we know conclusively one way or another, when the reality is that we don't.

As to why aliens would visit the earth and what makes us so special.

Clearly intelligent life is rare, we know of no other life, let alone intelligent life, in the universe. If you had the ability to visit the other world that had it, wouldn't you?