Musk's newly founded America Party run by Pajeets. You are wanting a vote, saer? Much America.
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Its the winning play from his moral perspective
People forget Musk is a transhumanist atheist. For that group of people, hitting space en masse is the win condition. NOTHING ELSE FUCKING MATTERS.
Its difficult to describe the scale at which that's true if you haven't been in that mix.
We have ONE chance as a species. We make it work THIS time, or we all fucking die.
Think of this, you're a nobleman in 1300s Europe. But you know the future. You KNOW what unlocking steam power will mean. You KNOW what it will take to get there. You KNOW that the difference between what you have now, and what you're about to be able to achieve is the difference between hundreds of thousands of people dying of starvation in the mud, and humanity taking the first steps into eternal glory.
Imagine that, and multiply it by a million. The distance between here and the stars is tiny, we mine one ateroid and it means more rare earth metals from one rock than have been excavated in all human history.
You are looking at BILLIONS of years coming down to a few generations of struggle. You HAVE to win. You HAVE to get over that last obstacle.
My friend. Human rights, and the evils of genocide become the concerns of ants at that scale. Elon is alone, unsupported, and is in direct opposition to the concept of Death. You cant expect him to be normal.
This reminds me of C.S. Lewis' essay, "Man or Rabbit?"
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In short, it endeavors to answer the question, "can I just be a good person, without bothering about God and religion?" The answer is no, because atheism and Christianity have totally different views of reality. Atheism teaches that men only live several decades, while civilizations can last for centuries or millennia. Conversely, the Christian view is that men ultimately live forever, making their individual fates of more import than civilizations.
Lewis doesn't make the case that Christianity is true in this essay; rather he makes the case that if one truly wishes to be moral, one has a responsibility investigate to find which (if either) claim is the most likely to be true.
That's the long and short of it. I dont actuallu begrudge Elon, in the same way I don't begrudge Putin or Islam in the same way I do Judiasm and Communists.
At their core. They are contrary ideas opposed to me and competitors, real enemies. Thats far more admirable than subversive nastiness. At least it's honest. At least it's a real fight.