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>Case and point - our scientific progress has led us to create tools of global genocide. Technology has always been a double edged sword. People never needed t
by literallycancer 9y ago
>Case and point - our scientific progress has led us to create tools of global genocide. Technology has always been a double edged sword.
People never needed technology to commit genocide - there are plenty of examples throughout our whole history.[1][2][3]
If anything, now that a significant portion of the world has nukes, we haven't had two developed countries at war for perhaps the longest period in recorded history.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
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Case and point -> You meant to write "case in point".
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>People never needed technology to commit genocide - there are plenty of examples throughout our whole history.[1][2][3] Technology was used in all of those examples. Technology by itself didn't create mass murder, but it does makes it much easier to do.
- literallycancer 9y agoTaking someone's cattle so that they starve doesn't require technology. I guess you could say smallpox blankets are a biological weapon.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoWhat's your point?