To me he's someone who has taken the trouble to think things through, and even if he said something that was profoundly offensive to me, I'd just be more intere

To me he's someone who has taken the trouble to think things through, and even if he said something that was profoundly offensive to me, I'd just be more interested in why he thought it. It has clicked recently that I now understand how urgent it is to develop tech to find and inhabit other planets, as the moment we got a picture of our own planet from the moon, whether anyone acknowledged it or not, life and culture here has became a finite zero sum game, and I now doubt that's something we can roll back. This isn't even a negative view, it's just that the tech that enables it will also enable a new source of hope that I think people can orient toward again.