[If any of these piques your interest, please use it as a prompt for our discussion. There's no need to answer more than one, unless you'd like to!]
1. If Chris McCandless had survived his journey “into the wild,” do you think it
would have been equally meaningful?
2. In 2008, when an Australian man who gave the name Dave Roberts had to be rescued from Alaska’s remote Brooks Range (where he had gone alone against the advice of locals), the operation was estimated to have cost $93,000. Do you think it’s fair to ask people like him to reimburse the rescuers for the cost of rescue?
3. Is self-exploration as important as exploring undiscovered parts of the world?
4. Listen to Gil Scott-Heron's track "Whitey on the Moon." Would the money spent to put a man on the moon have been better spent here on earth, fighting poverty, improving schools, or providing affordable housing?
5. What is the relationship between exploration and risk?
