Don’t get me wrong. I like Star Trek a lot.
But I don’t think its portrayal of humanity is particularly accurate. In Star Trek, they almost never knowingly leave people behind. And when they do, there are consequences. That description has been increasingly less applicable to humans to a point where we apply system justification gleefully.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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