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I don't buy the argument. A $100b space mission is going to have a bigger benefit to the desperately poor than a $100b medical research program? No way. But
by MarkMc 14y ago
I don't buy the argument. A $100b space mission is going to have a bigger benefit to the desperately poor than a $100b medical research program? No way.
But then, why does the space program need to be defended like that? People prefer buying big TVs, big cars, big houses instead of giving the money to starving Africans. So why not view the space program as just an extension of that?
- saraid216 14y agoBecause hedonism isn't really a good argument when being offered to a nun.
- simonbrown 14y agoBecause the government is the one spending the money.
- coldarchon 14y agoI don't buy the argument that giving money keeps Africans from starving. 100 years ago the population of Sudan had 1,800,000 people, while according to a census some years ago they managed to multiply by 20. The population is estimated to be at more than 25 times what it had been 100 years ago, to be at 48,000,000. And yet there is hunger every year. Did the arable land multiply by 25?