What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification. - Nayef Al-Rodhan

Just like the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons, an extensive war in space would make space useless, and the decisions taken today will influence the use of space for many generations to come.

Indeed, collective triumph will also depend both on the application of reason and the recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained.

Morality, if present, should not be relied on because it will be trumped by self interest in most circumstances.