PUSH this idea, don't denigrate it. Ship the Stupids to Mars, or tell them it's a tropical vacation on Venus. Then dream up some reason that radio com suddenly stops...
Talk about a win-win. What is better than sending technical retards with no survival skills, and the bland assumption they are "intelligent", to either a sub-zero near-vacuum, or a sulfuric acid atmosphere the temperature of molten lead?
“Ship the Stupids to Mars,...”
Exploration, esp. for recoverable water and oxygen that us cheaper to find and use than what is shipped from our gravity well, is another matter. IMHO, explore everywhere in the Solar System, but colonize near-Earth orbit and the Moon first. Much greater return, it allows for perfecting the tech and proving the concept, all to make later colonization if the planets feasible. This isn’t about next week we are talking about the next couple hundred years.