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by marksbrown 2957 days ago
His point to my mind was that life is viewed too sacrosanct given that there are individuals willing to go.
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The prior poster was explicitly talking about reducing crime by exporting criminals. That’s not a cheap way to execute “undesirable” people, and if they aren’t killed on the way up, we end up with people who are not a great fit for the demands of living in space, however willing prisoners may be to go.

I hope we can find a more humane way to deal with our troubled fellow humans than to send them on suicide missions.