ISRO’s successful soft landing of Chandrayaan is a joyous moment that can inspire us to dwell on a big question. As humans venture farther out into space, what dimensions of our behaviour will be at the fore? Will it be our capacity to be greedy and violent or our capacity for cooperation and non-violence that goes ‘spacewards’?
It has commonly been argued that human beings are not yet fit to venture out to space because we are still prone to petty disputes, wars and other insidious forms of violence. However, what lies beyond this. . .