We just wanted to play games but they didn 't want to admit they were simply buying us a toy , but via our youthful vantage point of technical knowledge we helped assuage their guilt .
The vantage from within would result in more intimate views than would the ordinary position of the scholar on the outer rim of the lens looking in , and , theoretically , would lead to more valid interpretation of observed behavior .
During the two-day event twitter users , or tweeps , took behind-the-scenes tours of kennedy , spoke at length with nasa astronauts , technicians , engineers and managers , and saw a launch from the vantage point usually reserved for more traditional media .
It uses these vantage points to lobby for its ideas : non-violence , a better economic deal for poor nations , the extension of international law , support for marriage-and , controversially , the " sanctity of life " from the time of conception , which means opposing contraception , abortion and euthanasia .