Tim Mulgan provides a kind of “compass” addressing the Fermi Paradox, fascinating!
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life-would-change-morality
” If aliens converge on a metaphysical view, it could be something like ananthropocentric purposivism. Perhaps all advanced civilisations are Wontians because they are simply indifferent to anything we care about, including communication with beings such as us. If life is ubiquitous, this might be the best solution to the Fermi Paradox. But it paints a very unsettling picture of our place in the cosmos……. “
The Deep Space Podcast 