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You can't debate this since the premise that there are two sides of the debate is false. All legislation is value laden, and it is impossible to disentangle values from religious belief. You could frame a debate such as,resolved: No legislation should be based on Judeo-Christian morality. or, resolved: No legislation should be based on pinhead liberal secular humanism. or, maybe even (though this is tough) resolved: No legislation should be based on the moral tradition of any of the 4 major world religions. But the debate you posit is a nullity. Another and related example of a poorly defined debate would be "no legislation should be enacted for other than purely objective scientific reasons". By the way, good luck. You should never have been suckered into this charade.

Thanks. With all the repetitive and unimportant questions being asked at both press conferences, nobody addressed rescue contingencies. This seemed a natural followup to the claim that no repair was possible. I had no idea that a failure that prevents re-entry but otherwise harms nothing is a sentence to lingering death a few hundred miles from home. These guys have more guts than I thought. You project a lot based on my question: I don't expect or demand spaceflight to be without risk. BTW, why did they take pictures on the Glenn flight when the door came off? Could something have been done in THAT case? Why did the team even consider for a moment taking pictures this time? Would the idea be just to get data before the thing burned up, or give the crew a chance to say their goodbyes?

Thanks. With all the repetitive and unimportant questions being asked at both press conferences, nobody addressed rescue contingencies. This seemed a natural followup to the claim that no repair was possible. I had no idea that a failure that prevents re-entry but otherwise harms nothing is a sentence to lingering death a few hundred miles from home. These guys have more guts than I thought. You project a lot based on my question: I don't expect or demand spaceflight to be without risk. BTW, why did they take pictures on the Glenn flight when the door came off? Could something have been done in THAT case? Why did the team even consider for a moment taking pictures this time? Would the idea be just to get data before the thing burned up, or give the crew a chance to say their goodbyes?

The burning question which I cannot believe has not been asked. "If you knew for certain that due to tile damage that safe re-entry was not possible, what are the contingency plans for such a scenario?" There have to be solutions to save the crew that do not require repair of the vehicle.