Is There a Risk in Space Advocacy?

There's this very human desire among, i think, a very self selecting group of people to explore. It's like a physical desire to be a part of the world. And i guess it ultimately comes down to finding responsible ways to do itd and that word does a lot of work,. What's a responsible exploration? Is it planetary exploration through robotics with the most adherent planetary protection guide lines? Or is it humans going to a place and kind of saying, well, we're taking reasonable precautions, but we're kind of going to have to take a certain risk?"