Ethics of Colonizing Mars

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 How colonizing regions by erstwhile British Empire could be termed unethical but the current race to space specially planets like Mars is going on unquestioned? What could be the possible explanation? The two kind of colonizations are different just because of existence of no humans on the Mars or is it that we do not want to question the way science and technology is heading to- into a deep space ? But, what if the life doesn't exist in Mars "as we know it" but in a form unknown to us?

As of know there is no evidence of life as we know it. However, if any possibility exists of Marsian bacteria being present. Will it be ethical to preserve the bacteria and deprive the humans of a possible living space? Only time will answer these questions, the Marsian times! 

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