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How is exploring other worlds inherently exploitative or destructive?
Columbus was an "explorer". Turns out, Humans aren't very good at exploring, the temptation to touch and take is too great. Also, by our very nature of being somewhere we change that somewhere qualitatively.
We haven't even reached the limits of what we can learn from down here using telescopes, satellites and probes. Speaking of which, sending robots to explore makes much more sense than sending humans, don't need oxygen, water, food, that space can be used for other things.
Yet humans have a need to set foot somewhere, to plant a flag, because we're not explorers, we are conquerors. Try to see us from the eyes of the other animals on this planet -- we are monsters.
I think this is bullshit. Just because a few people are assholes doesn't mean humanity is inherently bad or that exploration is always a bad thinng.
Well, you have a romantic view of the Human race, you'll grow out of it.
We literally call the period of global conquest, exploitation and genocide the "Age of Exploration". lmao
It's a name. A misnomer/"Orwellian" name. Names perspectives hold power, but they aren't the end all be all of anything.
I can't grow out of the truth