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by stickfigure 3534 days ago
It's a bit more than opinion, it's the Cosmological Principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle

There's room for debate but it generally seems to match our observations. There's no a priori reason to believe that Earth is special in the universe since all the rest of our solar system / galaxy seem to be unremarkable.