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I don’t think I want to live in a world where software engineers make up their own foreign policy. At the very least, enforceable sanctions give us options oth
by closeparen 6y ago
I don’t think I want to live in a world where software engineers make up their own foreign policy.
At the very least, enforceable sanctions give us options other than war. Giving that up could carry an immense human cost. An understanding of distributed software architecture does not come with the ability to understand and weigh that cost, nor does it make you a legitimate authority on which tradeoffs to choose. It’s probably inevitable, but I’ll be disappointed in our community if it happens.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI don't think I want to live in a world where all software engineers have to bow down to US foreign policy. If there is a real need to put sanctions in place to avoid a war, they can go through the UN and a vote on the UNSC. Otherwise, it's just great power games, and I don't want to have to deal with that.
- basilgohar 6y agoI appreciate what you're trying to say here, but a UNSC resolution is not even a full step away from "great power games". It's not the same, but it's hardly different.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIf a resolution passes the UNSC without veto, as well as passes the UN GA, then there is much higher likelihood that it is a legitimate issue and not just a game of great powers, perhaps even close to a certainty. That is not to say that there if it fails to go through the process it is necessarily just a game of great powers, but hey, that's the world we live in.