Escape

[matrixmann]

Maybe there's a reason why the American establishment wants to colonize Mars so badly: If they can build themselves a shelter on a distant planet, maybe they think "oh, now we can make nuclear war as we want, we don't need to have consideration for anyone anymore - if we want something, we get that something by all means!".
They don't need to care about the destruction anymore, but about the business value.

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Just to break it down: 1. of course there are different levels of radiation and gravity, but through trial and error human beings MIGHT do ok there eventually. No one is saying that tens of thousands won't die trying to colonize it.

Society definitely does not develop based on objective laws. There is no evidence, scientific evidence, for that anywhere. If anything, I'd say the opposite is true. There are no objective laws for societies. Anthropologists like Margaret Meade have studied tribal societies where the opposite of what Western Society has happened. There are societies where people eat each other etc... You really should make references to what other people have studied and written if you are going to make broad overarching statements claiming knowledge of everything.