Help save planetary exploration

[Rai]

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.

The issue is that oppression will always happen in spite of technology. If you want to wait for everyone to get along before we colonize space, well, we won't colonize space at all. We'll go extinct before we all move as a single unit. That doesn't mean we shouldn't aim high and reach as far as we can, because in spite of oppression, we will still always have those precious few enlightened minds. If that student is capable of skipping his grade, why shouldn't he?