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I'm all for private solutions. Leave my money in my pockets. If there are no solutions, so what? face it like a man. If you're so scared to die, then you'll do
by Thiz 13y ago
I'm all for private solutions. Leave my money in my pockets.
If there are no solutions, so what? face it like a man. If you're so scared to die, then you'll donate YOUR own money.
Not mine.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoPrivate solutions? You think that Asteroid defence has a business plan? How would a private solution generate a profit?
- dnautics 13y agoprivate != profit.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoAgreed. But given the enormous expense involved in constructing a private Asteroid defence system, what would the motivation be for the private organisation(s) involved?
- dnautics 13y agoi don't know. Living to see another day? And long before the threat of impact - feeling good about contributing to something positive for the Earth? I don't understand this obsession with the neoliberal idea that money is the sole driving motivation for everyone in the world - and I'm worried that it's going to be a self-fulfilling model. Just FYI, there already is a private foundation that is trying to do this very thing: http://b612foundation.org/ http://b612foundation.org/
- nknighthb 13y agoThen I'll do nothing, because I know I'll get the benefit of someone else spending their own money to save me, no matter what I do. But certainly I'll not expend my own money or effort to save the world, because I definitely don't want to spend it saving you and your ilk.
- dnautics 13y agothankfully, not everyone on this planet is as morally bankrupt as you, nor does charity require full participation of the populace to function adequately.
- nknighthb 13y agoOn the contrary, it is my morality that makes me content with a cosmic death sentence for any race to commit the crime of endorsing your intensely evil version of morality. If your views are to prevail, I eagerly await the universe's judgement, sentence, and punishment, for the human race is irredeemable.
- rwallace 13y agoAs a moderate libertarian, I think most things should be handled by the free market and the government should play a smaller role in our lives, but some important things like basic scientific research are undersupplied by the market and government intervention is a reasonably effective way to solve this problem. Asteroid defense would seem to be a textbook example.