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Makes sense. Even if the creator of the car never had the intention of making cars so that police men can use the cars to oppress people; the creators of those
by leafboi 6y ago
Makes sense. Even if the creator of the car never had the intention of making cars so that police men can use the cars to oppress people; the creators of those cars become liable as soon as they have knowledge of what those cars are used for.
Thus as a car creator you must take some level of responsibility for any atrocity your car is associated with.
For example did you know 1.36 million car related fatalities happen per year every year? If you make cars you are participating in the violent mass slaughter of people on a scale that dwarfs the genocide committed during the holocaust. In the US alone car manufacturers are responsible for creating cars that kill 100 people per day.
Does creating a tool that you know with absolute certainty will "accidentally" kill millions of people make it an "accident?" Are you guilty for murder when you create something that you know with absolute certainty that it will kill people?
To make the moral contradiction even more confusing let's examine people who make weapons.
As a maker of nuclear weapons you know that there will be exactly zero deaths in the next year due to nuclear explosions. Thus you've killed less people than the car maker and you're fully aware that your weapon is basically going to kill nobody. You want to pick a career that will absolutely kill zero people? Make nuclear weapons.
Even a ladder maker is aware sometimes people die when they fall off ladders but I can guarantee you that nobody died in a nuclear explosion last year.
Even if you make hand guns for the police, those guns will kill less black people than the amount of cars that killed black people. So car makers have killed more Black people than police men and gun manufacturers. Does that make them more racist? No.
You may be thinking that the above logic is absurd and your mind must be racing furiously to come up with counter-logic to make sense of all the garbage I said above. I'm telling you right now that it's a pointless endeavor to make sense of it all. It's pointless to talk about it and it's pointless to think about it. Morality was never suppose to make any sense.
Your morality is an inborn emotional module in your brain that is designed to help you survive and navigate a prehistorical setting where you lived as cavemen in a tribe. It's designed only for survival it was not designed for logical internal and external consistency. Think about it. Does Natural selection and evolution evolve these moral instincts in your head to help you create world peace or to help you survive so you can reproduce? Whether or not your morals had internal and external logical consistency never really was a factor for helping you survive thus your brain evolved moral instincts that can be highly contradictory when examined closely.
It's not suppose to be consistent and it's not suppose to make any sense.
Once you realize this, then you'll know all this stuff is really kind of pointless.
Don't think about it too deeply, is my advice... just deal with the surface issue: racism... there is no need to attack the manufacturer who makes police badges... because in the end even the surface issue of racism is sort of a superficial exaggeration from a cosmological perspective.
Even when you just consider the fact that the USA is already one of the least racist countries in the entire world it's sort of inconsequential. Have any of you been to other countries? The racism is on another scale in most other places.
- GhostVII 6y agoThe key point you are missing is that Ford created cars specifically tailored towards law enforcement. If the police were just buying Ford Fusions from the dealer like everyone else, I wouldn't consider them at all responsible. But they are specifically designing vehicles to help law enforcement, which I think gives them some responsibility.
- leafboi 6y agoIn my example above i specifically cited someone who makes guns or nuclear weapons. Those people make bombs and guns knowing full well that these weapons will kill less people than cars even though the base intention of the weapon is to kill.