Peace, Love, and mung beans
In all the news about the Discovery flight, I've come across an old arguement again, which I really do not understand. I never got it when I first heard it, and I don't get it yet.
The arguement goes something like this, "Why are we spending billions of dollars getting into space, when we could be helping the starving people of famine stricken Ethiopia/Bangladesh/ etc?"
But famines are man-made events, usually acts of war, and the only way to stop those ruthless enough to use them is to squash them like bugs. Sort of what the yanks are trying to do to the various groups of psychos operating in Iraq today. The kind of people who starve whole villages, or gas them, or tell their kids to blow themselves up in shopping malls, are not the kind of people who are interested in "opening a dialogue" of any other kind. It is only when the nutters are either killed or forcebly confined that more sensible people can sit down and figure out other ways to solve problems.
So why is it that the same people who claim to want to help the victims of said nutters so loudly oppose any effort to bring the nutters under control?
What's more, if the wealthier nations are then forbidden by these groups from using their power to control the various murederous groups, why not let them use their wealth to further our knowledge of the universe. If we are not allowed to help the hurt and hungry, we should at least be allowed to use our resources for something worthwhile.
The arguement goes something like this, "Why are we spending billions of dollars getting into space, when we could be helping the starving people of famine stricken Ethiopia/Bangladesh/ etc?"
But famines are man-made events, usually acts of war, and the only way to stop those ruthless enough to use them is to squash them like bugs. Sort of what the yanks are trying to do to the various groups of psychos operating in Iraq today. The kind of people who starve whole villages, or gas them, or tell their kids to blow themselves up in shopping malls, are not the kind of people who are interested in "opening a dialogue" of any other kind. It is only when the nutters are either killed or forcebly confined that more sensible people can sit down and figure out other ways to solve problems.
So why is it that the same people who claim to want to help the victims of said nutters so loudly oppose any effort to bring the nutters under control?
What's more, if the wealthier nations are then forbidden by these groups from using their power to control the various murederous groups, why not let them use their wealth to further our knowledge of the universe. If we are not allowed to help the hurt and hungry, we should at least be allowed to use our resources for something worthwhile.
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