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I had an interesting ethical debate presented to me in this incredibly long dream I had last night (which was an amazing dream, btw).
The dream itself would be hard to describe, but in many ways it placed me in an interesting scenario in which the space program had become incredibly unsafe because of budget limitations. Playing the role of an astronaut in this dream, the rocket had a failure during a stage seperation and the crew compartment was jettisoned. In the aftermath of this, a conspiracy formed in which the space agency actually pulled off tricking the public into the mission being a success by quickly doing some stuff in studios, to keep from having funding completly cut.
Anyhow, as this dream played out (which was like watching an action thriller to me, even in my own dream lol) the crew and I had tried to find the footage of the launch that had since been locked away to try to see what the problem had been (on our part or what) and eventually we found that the rocket had failed from a known manufacturing problem (from before the launch) which was pushed under the rug and hidden from both the crew and public because it would cost a little bit more to fix (it wasn't a huge issue, just something that would've been an inconvenience).
Then basically it just turned into this story of "What do we do with this?" Obviously there was alot of back-and-forth with the agency and in short it pretty much was a "We can expose this and probably lose the program" or a "We can let this slide and leave a huge problem which was known, still is known, and will continue to occur go risking many lives just to keep it afloat and going." I have a feeling I'll be going back and forth with this one in my head for awhile. To the average person it's not a debate at all (and it probably shouldn't be for me) where the program being shut down should be the obvious choice. But at the same time, it's people like me who'd be risking their lives for something they believe in. The dilemma, for me at least, is much more in the "Brush it under the carpet and forget it" not the risk, risk is always there... but to forget a huge flaw for a minor reason... what happens there? Hmm..
The dream itself would be hard to describe, but in many ways it placed me in an interesting scenario in which the space program had become incredibly unsafe because of budget limitations. Playing the role of an astronaut in this dream, the rocket had a failure during a stage seperation and the crew compartment was jettisoned. In the aftermath of this, a conspiracy formed in which the space agency actually pulled off tricking the public into the mission being a success by quickly doing some stuff in studios, to keep from having funding completly cut.
Anyhow, as this dream played out (which was like watching an action thriller to me, even in my own dream lol) the crew and I had tried to find the footage of the launch that had since been locked away to try to see what the problem had been (on our part or what) and eventually we found that the rocket had failed from a known manufacturing problem (from before the launch) which was pushed under the rug and hidden from both the crew and public because it would cost a little bit more to fix (it wasn't a huge issue, just something that would've been an inconvenience).
Then basically it just turned into this story of "What do we do with this?" Obviously there was alot of back-and-forth with the agency and in short it pretty much was a "We can expose this and probably lose the program" or a "We can let this slide and leave a huge problem which was known, still is known, and will continue to occur go risking many lives just to keep it afloat and going." I have a feeling I'll be going back and forth with this one in my head for awhile. To the average person it's not a debate at all (and it probably shouldn't be for me) where the program being shut down should be the obvious choice. But at the same time, it's people like me who'd be risking their lives for something they believe in. The dilemma, for me at least, is much more in the "Brush it under the carpet and forget it" not the risk, risk is always there... but to forget a huge flaw for a minor reason... what happens there? Hmm..