This reminds me of the articles attempting to calculate how much we've spent fictionally bringing Matt Damon back from places [1] and a line from the end of The Martian: "But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true."

1: https://time.com/4162254/cost-of-rescuing-matt-damon/