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Do you actually think damages caused in actual wars are somehow comparable to those in peace time technical development? What do you really mean by that?
by swinglock 6y ago
Do you actually think damages caused in actual wars are somehow comparable to those in peace time technical development? What do you really mean by that?
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoWWII advanced nuclear research, computing, electronics, and aerospace by decades within a few years. Was that a good thing? Was it a bad thing? Is there a definitive ethical answer to this question? There probably is - but not for this culture.
- wombatmobile 6y agoDuPont developed Teflon, then made billions by taking it to market without developing a way to dispose of the toxic waste byproducts of the manufacturing process. They just dumped it into virgin streams in West Virginia. Then they avoided responsibility for the deaths they caused by spending millions in the us court system to reduce the damages payout to less than one years profits.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoThis is comping directly from the DoD, so the military. And yes, the military uses peacetime to develop technologies to be used later in war to devastating effects.