Let's spread our existence throughout the cosmos!
: No! Space colonization is just the logical conclusion of the capitalist notion of infinite growth and settler colonialism. We should instead focus on problems here on Earth like poverty and climate change.
✝️ : No! That's just an insult to God who made this Earth for us. We should instead colonize Africa.
This is another lame argument against space colonization that I keep on hearing. Sure, life would probably won't be ideal for the settlers, but what will keep them going is knowing that they have purpose. Living in a pod on Mars will be much different than living in a pod on Earth where the only reason to do so is to appease the wishes of some technocratic psychopaths.
Also, news flash: you don't have to go there if you don't want to.
Lol
@dcc I don't care about "muh third-position". You are just culturally far-right while being economically left.
No its just that national socialism is socialist
>You are just culturally far-right while being economically left.
Me? thats not me at all :alex_lol:
@dcc @xianc78 The prevailing paradigm in the philosophy of science since the 1970s, mainstream academia, is that there is essentially no more objective epistemological validity or truth to the observed phenomena of a telescope or a spacecraft compared to the experience of an LSD trip, which is much more cost effective than the former. So, rationally speaking, why not cut the cost? I guess you can still question postmodernism though (at the risk of being called far-right)
Both the far-left and far-right cases against space colonization are fucking dumb.
Sure, there is a lot of grifters out there like that Mars One scam from a few years ago, and I don't see it happening anytime soon, but I still feel like it's a goal worth pursuing.