With out goals, without an eye to the future, without a curiosity for our surroundings, we become less human. If all we ever cared about was a place to sleep and where we get our next meal we'd still be as primitive as the rest of the animal kingdom.
This struck me while reading the above: my wife made a very similar point (about a different subject) to me right after the Columbia disaster:
"How can we spend all that money on the space program when there's all those homeless, starving people, etc". (paraphrased)
This is frustrating. I've found you can apply that argument against many, many actions the govenment does. How do you defend against people using this argument without seeming calloused, uncaring, and mean-spirited? How do I convince my wife the space program is worth the money even though people still continue to die of AIDS or be homeless, etc?
Doug
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