"Space is a big place and ripe with many possibilities. The Planetary Society wants to keep it a sanctuary for science, regulated and ruled by scientists for scientific purposes. The Vision is about expanding opportunities in space for many different and varied parties, including scientists. The Moon is included because it is the first place near the Earth that has the material and energy resources to allow us to understand if using space resources is possible and if so, how difficult that might be. This objective is not merely designed to lower the costs of future space missions, but to understand what it takes for humankind to live off-planet. If people are to have a future in space, we simply must learn how to extract and produce what they need from what’s already there; we cannot drag everything we need with us from the deep gravity well of the Earth."
http://moon.airspacemag.com/

I think Dr. Paul D. Spudis makes some good point in this article.
I think there some who regard space as sort of "holy".
Granted it is heaven in a literal sense.
We lived for eons with space as holy and divine and I wonder how much that has seeped into our present consciousness.

I wonder if it offends in any way anyone's "sensibilities" to have a Las Vegas
on the Moon. Something like huge dump truck dragging away material which has been blasted and chew up huge machinery. Or does happy industrialists gnawing on planets cause some kind of resentment?