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Why do you view this as admirable? I view it similarly to creating a large cache of explosives and munitions and then giving them away for free. Sure a lot of p
by cco 7y ago
Why do you view this as admirable? I view it similarly to creating a large cache of explosives and munitions and then giving them away for free. Sure a lot of people might have some fun with them on the weekend but the largest impact of this technology will be used against people, not for them.
- RussianCow 7y ago> the largest impact of this technology will be used against people, not for them How so?
- rpmisms 7y agoMany of the people here are optimistic about the use of tech for the betterment of mankind.
- staktrace 7y agoWith your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?
- minikites 7y agoThe latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.
- zenography 7y agoTo defend themselves, hundreds of thousands to millions of times per year. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685
- williamdclt 7y ago> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.
- zenography 7y agoAre you saying that people defending themselves is worse than killing?