User blog comment:Beast of burden/BioShock: Eclipse/@comment-6024608-20131015235605/@comment-6024608-20131016142408

There are lots of flavors of idealists. If they were government involved then the idealism would have to reflect the politics of the day...

Perhaps some kind of  "we are making a lifeboat for humanity if it should manage to destroy itself on earth"   ontop of going along with the government tyopes that made the moonbase possible.