Argument 2: The Hot Tub Do humans have any right to bind their fellow humans to Earth? We said at the beginning of this book that the question here is whether the choice to settle space is more like the personal choice to buy a hot tub or more like the highly regulated choice to buy a nuclear missile. Given that space settlement is unlikely to deliver huge benefits anytime soon, given that the path forward might lead to legal chaos, given that space activity won’t reduce the likelihood of war and might increase it under some scenarios, well, it’s hard to argue that this is just a matter of
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