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I'm with Studiot on this, Erik. I have been re-reading the threads you participated in, concerning Gravity theory and fine tuning of the Universe, and I found your posts to be thoughtful and insightful. Even when making statements that others corrected, there is no need for editing, as they become a valuable learning tool for others. And that is the reason we are all here; to learn from others, and sometimes, provide some insights, or even teach a thing or two to the 'experts'. Your contributions, so far, are valued and appreciated.

Hello, erik, I see you have a total of 15 posts resulting in 4 plus points since you joined. That's better than 1 to 4 and better even than our most senior moderator. Please don't feel threatened, you are doing exceedingly well.

As others have shared, the intent underlying this permission setting here is to avoid problems from bad actors, and the staff here have decided that minimizing that risk brings more value to the site and participants than the marginal value of allowing forever edits or voluntary deletes forever for everyone. With that said, if a post is particularly bad, then I’m sure you could click the Report button and ask the mods here to make a specific edit or fix on your behalf. But on the internet, you need to basically assume it lives forever the moment you click Submit Reply or Send.

Hm. To be honest, I think to a neutral and external observer, the current state of humanity mightn’t look so appealing. There’s a lot of greed, hatred, delusion and ignorance. A very large percentage of our current population still lives in abject poverty. At any given time, there’ll be something like half a dozen armed conflicts in progress in different parts of the world. There are at present on the order of 13000 nuclear warheads available for launch (~90% of which in just two countries). Nationalism, militarism and various forms of religious and cultural extremism are rife everywhere. Even in developed nations with good education systems, the average person’s knowledge of scientific, philosophical, ethical, sociological and teleological concepts is at best rudimentary. Of course, our species has also achieved many positive things in the sciences, humanities, arts, etc etc - but it would seem to me that these sadly are not representative of our overall state of affairs, at least not at this point in time. Would I, as being an advanced civilisation, and based on what I am observing here on Earth right now, be inclined to share my knowledge and technology? I think probably not. A ultra-sharp kitchen knife is a really useful tool that enables you to cook a delicious meal - but you wouldn’t hand it to a toddler, would you?

I think this is an interesting point and one which may influence a person's reasoning. The optimistic view would be that an advance alien technology is/will visit us and become our friends/carers sharing their success's knowledge and technology. On the other hand, they could be totally hostile not interested in or consider humans as no value and just take what they want or could just ignore us completely with no consideration for any potential consequence to us detrimental or other influence. Walking down the street you tread on a few tiny bugs, does this raise your concern? Do you tread more carefully and avoid killing anything ever? Do you try and avoid and accept some loss? Do you carry on regardless with no concern to the bugs's life or their value and continue about you business? Are the bugs in the way of what you want and therefore you eradicate them in pursuit of your intended goal? They/it could have completely unrecognisable motivations that we cannot even begin to relate to. As you say, its all conjecture and speculation based upon our own experiences and imagination.

Hold on, you can close browsers?

It took over 168 times more effort to write this post than to left click the X on the browser tab. Are you sure you don't just like being dramatic?

I’d answer, but since I won’t be able to edit it one hour from now or delete it two years from now I probably shouldn’t

How sure are you that we're not?

PBS Frontline. Documenting the case for war crimes. Visceral feeling of what it’s like to be in the towns that were occupied and how the executions occurred. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/putins-attack-on-ukraine-documenting-war-crimes/

For the OP to make sense, one must first establish that the universe is 'fine tuned'. No such thing has been established, so it is a bit presumptuous to call it a problem.