I believe this is a question that certainly can’t be fully
addressed within 250 words (maybe 250 pages, if you don’t go too in depth). My
short answer to this question is the space program should be held accountable
to a degree. NASA is a government program. While there are a ton of different
viewpoints on what the government is supposed to do, I believe that you can
break it down to the government is there to serve the people. In order to best
serve someone, you have to take into account what they want. The government
would be seen as tyrannical if it did whatever it wanted, and no one wants to
be ruled by a tyrannical government. That being said, the government can’t
completely go on public opinion. If they did, nothing would get done. Public
opinion changes on a day to day basis. It is impractical and wasteful to cancel
a program any time the approval rating falls below 50%.
I also find it necessary for government to sometimes do some
things that are not favored by the public. If the public wants to colonize
outer space, then the space program will have to study how sex works in space.
It is not possible to please someone who wants something, but doesn’t want a necessary
part of it. That being said, if we are to move forward with the space program
with the aim to colonize space, we would have to how to have sex in space.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The government I feel is very corrupt and has a lot of under the table objectives working for them. They put on the façade that they work for the people but to what extent? Also the fact that our space program is canceled we will never know if we could colonize in the first place. Hopefully other political powerhouses are trying to figure this out because I really agree that we have to expand. It’s like in Packing for Mars when they put them in the small spaces. That is what Earth is becoming for us. We've got to branch out before we all nuke each other or get naturally destroyed, if it ever happened again.
ReplyDeleteYour post made me kind of rethink my post, because yes I believe public opinion should be taken into consideration, but how exactly are you suppose to do that? Like you said public opinion is constantly changing, how can NASSA take into consideration non-concrete information? Also, How are they suppose to make the majority of the public happy? It is a huge dilemma, which I cannot really begin to comprehend and like you said it is a topic that cannot really be condensed into 250 words rather 250 pages! Thanks for this post!
ReplyDeleteI agree that there needs to be some accountability for any government program. It isn't as if many questionable programs haven't been green-lighted before. As government represents their citizens, their opinion should always be taken into account.
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