• corroded@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    For what it’s worth, I agree with you 100%. I’d love to see Musk fail in every one of his business endeavors, but if we’re going to drop space garbage over the planet, an uninhabited island seems like a great place to do it. The fact that a small group of people has superstitious ideas about that small patch of land should be irrelevant.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      this attitude is the problem with religion though. it’s not that the religion isn’t guided by science, but the idea that one groups needs supercede another group’s. the hawaiians are the native keepers of this ecosystem. for thousands of years they have been there maintaining it. now because another group wants it for something else we’re just supposed to ignore them? fuck that. this is the same attitude that gave us the crusades, the rape of africa, the potato famine, and boarding schools for indigenous people in north america. it doesn’t matter that those acts were done by people who claimed to have god on their side and you claim there is no god.

      what matters is those acts were done by people claiming to be more advanced than the backwards people they were doing it to, which is exactly what you are advocating for here

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        I suspect people would also be upset if Dumbo McNazi got a government contract to destroy a 500 year old cathedral to put up a nazi truck factory.