“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

I can not help seeing the moral incongruity if not outright contradiction in people, scientists, "smart people" who go all breathless and aflutter over a possible discovery of "life" in places other than Earth.
Yes, I hate to be a party pooper but many if not most of the folks who react that way to "possible signs of extra-terrestrial life forms would not think twice about the destruction of human life still inside the womb.
There is excitable, wide eyed chatter about extra-terrestrial life forms - talk about the wonder and sanctity of "LIFE"! Wonderful, beautiful LIFE! - nevermind the life of unmeasurable potential for good that was "nipped in the bud" - destroyed before it could grow, develop, become its fullest good self.

Life on Venus! beautiful! Life is a wonder and a beautiful thing!

...unwanted life in a womb...kill it!

I believe there’s other life forms, but we humans are too wild to handle it and might kill them; either with our germs or weapons.

Interesting discovery, but I'm not holding my breath on scientists ever discovering lifeforms on Venus.