"NASA and space exploration makes our lives better" isn't an axiomatic truth; it's an orthodoxy you've had inculcated in you from childhood that you've personally worked to reinforce via forming a sense of identity of oneself as Smart and Sensitive, Different From Those Jocks.
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@Nymphomachy brought up sports because sports is a very powerful analogy here when it comes to "human irrationality" It's very hard to say what some alien observer would find beneficial about playing high school sports -
People say sports are good because they get people to exercise Okay, but exercising could be much more easily accomplished by just, like, jogging and doing push-ups
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