Take a look at this picture and let me know what you think...
Will the Human race ever reach a level of technology like this?
What would this environment demand on the people inhabiting it?
Do you think humans living in space would have a higher average level of intelligence and social responsibility than is asked of them in this world, where the air is free?
Would non-productive people be tolerated? What then be done with criminals and free-loaders?
How would the crime rate compare with contemporary society?
Is human society only viable on a large scale on hospitable terrestrial planets?
Are we fated to be a species that only spends limited time in space (voyaging from one world to the next) because our societies are inherently incapable of the orderly behavior that living permanently in Space would demand?
You can view a full size copy of the image here...
http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/TheReturn.jpg-b0b
(...borrowed some of these questions from AR15.com.)