this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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As long as we become space faring super survivors, I'm fine with that. Good intentions don't make rocket fuel for the vroom vroom. We need to vroom some explorers to other places, just in case.
Well, I mean that's a lie. "Good intentions don't make rocket fuel." The first rocket that was ever designed was designed specifically to go to space. It was used in WW2 by the Nazis but its creator said "The rocket worked perfectly, but it fell on the wrong planet." Those good intentions are needed for every step of space exploration. You don't get to suddenly become a rampant narcissistic, misogynistic, arrogant piece of human garbage the second that you clear the gravity well of your home planet. You hold true to those purposes because they will inform your every decision. If you start doing horrible things in the pursuit of a lofty goal, you corrupt that goal and all actions you take in the future. You will be looking through things in a dirtied, bloodied lens. Or, as someone once put it far better...
Whether you do good things or bad things is who you are. If you start taking terrible actions then you become a terrible person. Or, as the man again once said...
Then there's the fact that Elon constantly shits on everyone below him. Guess what? There's a few quotes for that too. Here are my favorites.
Or what about this interaction between Worf and Picard?
Now lemme top all this ramble off with one final slightly edited quote to cement my point.