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> For the price of one new video game, you can feed someone in Africa for two months.

Once you've killed the person who wanted to see the person you're feeding starve to death.

These days, starvation is political, as it is a weapon of war.

Well, if you go to a forum about space exploration video game, you might indeed find some intalligent discussion about world hunger, among other things ;).

Video games aren't routinely justified as the solution to an extinction event on earth.

Because they are not. Colonizing other worlds is.

Not really. Even if multiple extinction events hit Earth, Earth’s still going to be much more hospitable than Mars is now.

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Hence it is appropriate to discuss how the problems would be solved on a spaceflight forum, but not so appropriate on a video game forum.