Habitable for who anyway? We shouldn't assume that life can only develop in the habitable (for us) zone. But we do anyway because we don't know anything else.

Habitable for who anyway? We shouldn't assume that life can only develop in the habitable (for us) zone. But we do anyway because we don't know anything else. Why would other sentient beings even want to communicate with those self-centered carbon-breathers? Why not just laugh about their hubris and that woefully incomplete definition of life? Telling them would spoil it!