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> Does it make sense, in a world like the one in Gattaca, for a person that is part of a discriminated class, to go into space, instead of trying to change the
by bequanna 4y ago
> Does it make sense, in a world like the one in Gattaca, for a person that is part of a discriminated class, to go into space, instead of trying to change the society around him to be less discriminatory?
I think this is a little naive.
Why should every member of an underclass have to fight the good fight vs improve their own personal position? IMO, the latter is much more likely.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoAnd when the news gets out a underclass achieved something great it may change things.
- skeeter2020 4y agodefinitely - look at sports, academics, etc. Once something "impossible" gets completed, it gets repeated more frequently and widely than you'd expect.
- sangnoir 4y agoHistory is filled with counterexamples. Discriminated people who do great things are discounted as once-offs, ceremonially inducted into the in-group or ignored entirely.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIt’s also filled with pro-examples.