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Originally Posted by SERPENT7
Filtherton,
Maybe you should spend more time shutting your piehole, and less time telling me how to run my life.
Besides, I was only trying to point out what i see as a disparity between most people abstracting thier ideals and notputting ANY of them into actual practice.
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He was using the "stop spending time on messageboards" as an example of things people should stop doing, not to insult you - so you didn't need to return it. Granted, he could have stated it better, but oh well.
The point is, instead of staying in college to get my Computer Science degree, I could drop out and join the Peace Corps. But I don't. Is that selfish of me? Sure. Is my CS degree going to help humanity? Probably not. Do I care? Not really.
Why do we spend time and energy trying to explore space? Because a lot of people believe that humanity's future, one way or another, is in space. There's lots of ways that we could "work to make society/humanity" better, but that's an
entirely different discussion. Going to space does help us, as there are lots of technologies/medicines that are researched in space, or in the process of going to space, so it's not an entirely useless venture.