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Good. just like universal unbreakable glass might hurt glaziers. just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons. just like peop
by jimjimjim 10y ago
Good.
just like universal unbreakable glass might hurt glaziers.
just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons.
just like people not getting attacked might hurt self-defense courses.
I realize this is perfect-world absolutist thinking but industries that exist because of something wrong in the world shouldn't have a right to exist when that wrong is removed.
- Aelinsaar 10y ago"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -The Shirky Principle
- heimatau 10y agoGreat quote. I call it corruption, self-preservation that hurts the masses, and status quo thinking. Technology is going to hopefully disrupt all of this.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoIt's the only thing that can, if history is any guide. Society and "ethics" are so often a function of our technology, however simple we now consider that tech to be.
- carapace 10y agoI can't say that it isn't apocryphal, but the worst example I've ever heard of this was an ambulance-driver's union campaigning against a law that was expected to reduce accidents... As I say, I don't know if it was true or not. I hope not!
- kaonashi 10y ago> just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons Naw, they just lobby for new reasons to lock people up.