[extropy-chat] Great question

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Because they see more of a benefit of having troops where they are, than they see from sending out those astronauts.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Al Brooks 
  To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:58 PM
  Subject: [extropy-chat] Great question


  Why? Because they value life. Except those lives far far away; or lives on death row; or lives of those caught in the drug war. They value unborn life, but after the kiddies are born we can later send them to mediocre schools, or lousy churches or feed them bad food. 
  However we cannot blame politicians because they 'are sinners and aren't we all'. They have all the bases covered. They are constructionists busily erecting sand castles.

   It seems politicians have little trouble with sending hundreds
  of solders to their deaths irrespective of the desires
  of those solders and for no demonstrable benefit (see
  Iraq) and yet there's terrible trouble with letting a
  few astronauts take the risks they would desire to
  take. What's up with that?

  ~Ian



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