Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc...
by avgcorrection on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:38PM
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> I see the logic here.
There’s no logic there. Just a faith in “potential”.
It is arguable one way or the other whether civilizational humans have caused more happiness or more suffering for Earth (all of us lifeforms combined). So the only way to call such a thing “morally reprehensible” is if you assume that Civilization will eventually evolve into some awesome, fantastic, space-faring, all-needs-met, stewards of the near solar system fantasticness.
There’s no logic there. Just a faith in “potential”.
It is arguable one way or the other whether civilizational humans have caused more happiness or more suffering for Earth (all of us lifeforms combined). So the only way to call such a thing “morally reprehensible” is if you assume that Civilization will eventually evolve into some awesome, fantastic, space-faring, all-needs-met, stewards of the near solar system fantasticness.