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- From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)
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- Subject: Moral Justification
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:09:24 GMT
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- gorney@picard.med.ge.com (Felix Gorney Mfg 4-6983) writes:
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- >: |> Can any of you think of any moral or philosophical justification
- >: |> for using huge amounts of taxpayer money to fund the "space
- >: |> program" at all? Not counting, of course, it provides high-
- >: |> pay, high-tech jobs for a bunch of us.
- >:
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- > Well, I have one good reason, the space program more than pays for itself in
- > new technology and spin-offs (actually the frequently quoted figure is for
- > each dollar invested we have gotten a return of about seven bucks in high
- > tech industry and savings)
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- >Mark
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- Sorry. Valuable, perhaps, but not moral.
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- 1) If it has such a good return, why do we need the gov. to pay for it?
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- 2) How do you convince that factory worker that lost his job to a robot
- that his money should be spent to help put him on the street?
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- -Tommy Mac
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