Comment on Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 7 months agoHow is this not a parallel to climate catastrophe?
I hear you arguing:
If you don’t want to pollute the planet, go ahead.
If other people want to pollute the planet, your beliefs are entirely irrelevant.
The moon is a shared resource, and blasting off rockets with remains into an ecology that can’t process it, and diminishes ours, seems like a poor way to respect neither our own nor the Moon’s resource cycles.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Don’t get me wrong here: there’s certainly reasons this idea is stupid as hell. Wasteful, expensive, polluting, creating future cleanup should we colonize the moon…
I’m just pointing out that using religion as your reason that others should be upset about this is also foolish. Let religion guide your own decisions.
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh, I apologise for coming off wrong, I entirely agree that religion is a very poor reason to dictate behaviour, especially others’.
I do however think that other people should get a say in what we do with the moon, lest it become another one in the parade of poor decisions in the name of colonisation and short sighted thinking.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You literally rewrote my words, what did you expect?
Straw Man Argument
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s a cultural misunderstanding, in my culture religious trauma isn’t as prevalent, and as such I interpreted your usage of religion as an example of people butting in, rather than your main point.
You cleared up the emphasis in your response, and as such I apologise for the misunderstanding.