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Old 11-05-2009, 06:20 PM   #75 (permalink)
Clodhopper
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Re: Colonising Space

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Originally Posted by spot View Post
Again you're highlighting the gap between our positions. What you regard as "morally corrupt" I regard as a moral obligation. Your argument that "no one would deny their own child food to ensure the prolongation of the human species that don't exist yet" strikes me as both untrue and disgraceful.
I think very few people would deny their child food and give the money to the space programme. I could certainly see a case for the billions wasted in eg Hollywood being used for that end instead, though.

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