Exactly. With this mindset we should colonize Death Valley or other desolate deserts on Earth. It's similar to Mars except it has oxygen and you can travel there in a car. Much easier to get water and food transported there, and then you just need reliable air conditioning. We don't need to travel through space to land on a shithole with less to offer than our desolate deserts here.  Hell, even colonizing Antarctica and the ocean floor makes more sense than the Moon or Mars. We act so "transcendent" beyond our means.