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how much easier it is to destroy society Lots of modern technologies do that. Like a child growing up—at what age do you use sharp knives? a lawnmower? a car?—

• pasabagi 8y ago
  >humanity has matured ethically alongside our technology That's exactly the problem. I don't think we have at all. We do no serious study of ethics in our schooling, and frankly don't devote serious thought to the subject. It's very uncommon to meet somebody who has read even a single book about ethics. We're a society of meat-eaters who consider people who harm animals to be scum, a society that simultaneously considers the protection of children fundamental, and where the most likely age to die on a world scale is in childhood. These are reflections of a deep lack of ethical maturity. Regardless of all of the inconsistency, I think it's hard to look at the times in which the world came to the brink of nuclear catastrophe in the cold war, and state confidently that this is a society with the maturity to hold nuclear weapons.