
Space Policy Edition: The Tricky Ethics of Space Settlement
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Are We Creating a Society Like That?
In the absence of legal requirements to reproduce, there's such a spectrum of yeah, cultural pressure looking the other way. And do we want to live in a society like that? Yeah, that really struck me. I would also note too that the delicacy of having to precisely plan for population growth is so difficult because again, of can you have enough space to accommodate growing human population? If it grows too fast, you're going to have nowhere to put people. That doesn't grow fast enough. Who is controlling this? And then is everyone biologically considered machines by whatever system is in place? Then again, you get into these really challenging situations that are not again, very pleasant to exist
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