10-22-2012, 02:10 AM
(10-22-2012, 01:42 AM)Rai Wrote: The "let's fix Earth first" argument is bullshit. If we can (eventually) move our species off the planet, or at least the industrialized cultures, you know what that means? Earth will have a chance to recover. The third-world countries, meanwhile, will have an opportunity to grow, and industrialize in tandem with the lessons we've learned from the mistakes we've made, and create a society that can potentially respect nature.
One of the reason's I think this is a bad idea. So, instead of humanity changing it's values, they'll just make the same mistakes elsewhere and stop oppressing their own here, huh.
Like I said on posts before, this is not about being against space exploration, more about priorities in the first place. A simple example would be of a student that's trying to skip his grade, even though he probably knows very little about what he's studying right now.