Those are general arguments against pretty much any long term space habitat and they are completely wrong.<p>The ISS is constantly supplied and refueled that&#x27;s not a reason why not to maintain it, it&#x27;s an argument why we should not have built it in the first place which is a very silly argument to make.<p>We need space stations the more the merrier, China and India are getting into the game, Russia wants a new one of their own, and the public sector is also looking at such platforms for everything from micro-gravity manufacturing of drugs to space hotels.<p>The argument that people in favor of decommissioning the ISS should make is we need a bigger, better, further away one that we could use to go cheaply to the moon, asteroid belt, mars, and the Jovian and Saturnian moons.