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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Dear Ms Johnstone: Thank you both for creating and for making this beautiful essay available to read. Yours is an argument simple and artful.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

I'd say Musk's proposition that exo-planetary exploration is nifty insurance against species-ending nuclear holocaust argues instead for a elegant test that we as a race either pass or fail. No species that's prone to wipe itself out for ultimately dumb nationalistic or monetary reasons deserves to flourish, any more than war crime-committing Israel is entitled to luxuriate in a US-guaranteed security. Some things really are this simple.

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