Very true. Higher technology will put more power in the hands of even crazy individuals - but I submit to you that the American electoral college already does

Very true. Higher technology will put more power in the hands of even crazy individuals - but I submit to you that the American electoral college already does that. The answer isn't a futile attempt not to understand the world and its potential better, but rather to understand why crazy people want to kill people, and try to fix the disease instead of the symptoms. But it's going to be a long freaking time before humanity is that mature, so yeah, in the meantime, maybe we're all going to die. But probably not. And therefore we should continue trying to learn about the world and its potential, raise our kids to be better people than we are, and get on with things.