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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Planet rights.
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 00:18:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 00:18:39 1984
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> From:  Anthony J. Courtemanche <AC%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
> 
> Until Mankind can restore what he has destroyed, and DOES RESTORE HIS
> DESTRUCTION, I don't think he is in any shape to try and start anew
> somewhere else.  I would rather wait till we prove to ourselves that
> we can be responsible with our world before spreading our cancer to
> another one.

I used to hold this view, but now am resigned to the fact that if we
"wait until we prove ourselves..." we will never get anything done.
I just sounds like some kind of "you can't have your dessert unless
you finish your vegtables" philosophy, which I reject.

Continuation of this topic should occur in net.flame, not here.