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So existence of A-bomb or low-tech genocide somehow justifies creation of new means to kill people?
by rimantas 16y ago
So existence of A-bomb or low-tech genocide somehow justifies creation of new means to kill people?
- puredemo 16y agoSure. It'll be more transparent at least. And there might even be some due process eventually.
- bh23ha 16y agoIt doesn't justify anything. It just shows that we are already killing people in almost every way imaginable so another new one would not be anything all that new.
- seldo 16y agoThe same tech can also walk into a burning building to locate trapped people without endangering the lives of firemen, crawl through rubble to find survivors after an earthquake, power household robots to assist the disabled, and more. I know the source of funding here is distasteful, but this is a dual-use technology if ever I saw one.
- GrandMasterBirt 16y agoThis argument is moot. As long as humanity will want to kill eachother, everything will be used as weapons. Computers are used as weapons (hell would computerized bombs and missiles be possible otherwise?) boats are used to kill people. Airplanes used to kill people. So now robots, why not its the next step. Knowing the US government they will manufature them without any bit of encryption and with a radioshack remote control someone can hijack one of these :P