top | item 45040932

(no title)

MOARDONGZPLZ | 6 months ago

Setting aside the founder or company itself, philosophically and ethically the “ends justify any means” concept is deeply flawed.

discuss

order

natch|6 months ago

I agree with your general statement, but in this particular case nobody has credibly articulated any real problem with the means.

Zigurd|6 months ago

Especially when the ends are even less likely to work then Marxism Leninism

lstodd|6 months ago

But the scientific method does work. So we observe the experiment kindly undertaken by Mr Musk. And then when some results happen we decide.

Remember, development of the R-7 into the most reliable expendable booster took about 40 years and that with full backing of a Soviet Union.