[sailingparrot]

> The issue with your argument is that earth is not a special place

This is not my argument at all, it's actuall quite the opposite.

The argument is that, if everything about us is average (including our host planet), and given the tremendous amount of planets everywhere, we should see life basically everywhere. But we don't! So there indeed maybe something special about us, maybe our planet, maybe some extremely rare step in our evolution.