Should we colonize Mars or fix Earth first?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should we colonize Mars or fix Earth first?". Your opponent's style: Richard Feynman

THB that nurturing empathy in the younger generations should be included in the formal curriculum.

Look, you're confusing what schools are *for*. They exist to teach kids how to *think*, not how to *feel*. You want to know what happens when you mandate empathy in curriculum? Kids learn to perform it, fake it, pass the test. That's not empathy, that's acting class. Real empathy grows from lived experience, from consequences, from actually dealing with other people in messy situations. You can't curriculum that. What you *can* do is teach critical thinking, history, literature, science, and let kids naturally develop their own moral compass through wrestling with real ideas. Forcing it just breeds cynicism. Kids see through it instantly.