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Some people think governments should spend as much money as possible exploring outer space (for example, traveling to the Moon and to other planets). Other people disagree and think governments should spend this money for our basic needs on Earth. Which of these two opinions do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
Currently the concern about whether our government should channel all its resource into exploring the outer space rather than meeting the basic needs of people, practically, poses a tantalizing question to the public. It arouses a variety of controversial issues judging from different aspects such as the expectation for future development, the present living condition of most people, thus those officers would find themselves inevitably implicated in a dilemma when it comes to achieving the equilibrium between technical advancement and basic improvement. However, as far as I am concerned, the consideration about our rudimentary needs should always be our priority.
To begin with, one reason for my propensity is that government should concern the people’s requirement first because of the clear fact that government’s resource are mostly gleaned by taxes, which are paid by its inhabitants. We pay taxes to help government assemble money of which the quantity is large enough to implement something that could not be solved by tiny individual, such as constructing a new traffic system. In other words, we expect the government to consider our tax payer’s needs first, the decision upon how to use the money would be more rational if we and government reach a consensus. And mostly, we care our direct living condition s more than indirect ones such as building a new space capsule.
Moreover, it would never be a reasonable hypothesis to develop the technologies without contemplating about satiating most people’s elementary needs. Putting into a more pragmatic situation, a large number of people still suffer from poverty in Africa due to the shortage of food, clothes and other essential needs. And a problem of blemished welfare system occupies as well for its quite restricted government resource. In that case, obviously, it would be weird to imagine that a government still insists on sponsoring the research of outer space exploration. Undoubtedly, the government’s primary attention should be focused on meeting the basic needs of citizens.
Furthermore, if government keep donate money on space technology as much as possible, it will be no longer capable to solve other civil problems such as lack of education resource, security insurance, hence resulting in more and more disorder and disharmony. In this case, no matter how the space technology advances, it hardly makes sense.
On the contrary, someone would argue that the benefits of developing such technologies come as well. For example, people could learn about the condition of other planets, so that it would be possible for human beings to move to a new environment in case the earth has run out its resource. Nevertheless, it makes more sense only under particular circumstances that our basic requirements are fulfilled therefore have extraordinary ability to care the outer space. As can be seen, its potential advantages are quite limited for the restricted extent of which we improve our living condition.
After all the factors are taken into account, it might not be complicated for us to vindicate that government would be better to concentrate on meeting our basic needs, instead of accentuating the space exploration. |
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