Re: Spaceflight or extinction website

From: Mike Combs (mikecombs_at_nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:03:23 -0600

"James Nicoll" <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote in message
news:d0spr2$6k7$1@reader1.panix.com...
>
> _Could_ rain down. The offearthers might take the inability
> of the Terrans to deal with what is after all a predictable event as
> a symptom of Earth's moral decay and decline to help, on the grounds
> that it would undermine the Terran moral character even more.

That seems to assume a single, common cultural attitude on the part of all
the space settlers. I tend to expect that a wide variety of cultures will
develop beyond the Earth, and that they'll manifest the entire range of
potential hostility toward/indifference to/affection for Earth. Many might
adopt the attitude you describe, but I doubt that they all would. 

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Mike Combs
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