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Technologies are neutral, not moral. But most of the time they tend to be used for positive things. Do you not think that the invention of the gas-powered auto
by mtgx 9y ago
Technologies are neutral, not moral. But most of the time they tend to be used for positive things.
Do you not think that the invention of the gas-powered automobile 100 years ago was a positive thing for society, especially at the time?
If we want to go the negative route we could also say that personal EVs are not moral, but electric public transport vehicles are, because manufacturing them and then charging their batteries is still negatively impacting out environment right now, even if it does it "less".
- simonsarris 9y agoYou are incorrect. Because of past decisions, we have a population that cannot be supported without oil. Oil that will run out or become prohibitively expensive, some day. We have a moral imperative to find "the next technology." We may have more than a hundred years to do so, but your level of optimism in the timing does not change the morality of the imperative. (If you say "we'll always find new and cheaper ways of extracting oil," then you already agree with me, you just picked a different technology. We still have the moral imperative to find that technology.)