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So, every major unethical, immoral or even outright treasonous act in the past decade dwindles down to a few scapegoats. The engineer from the car company fudg
by kumarvvr 4y ago
So, every major unethical, immoral or even outright treasonous act in the past decade dwindles down to a few scapegoats.
The engineer from the car company fudging its pollution data, Jefferey Epstein, Child trafficking rings of the high and mighty, stock market frauds, and the list goes on.
This is true across the world to a degree.
All this technology, laws, systems, institutions, people, moral education, increased awareness and everything modern has not moved the society a lot in any positive direction. Just wobbling around a point, swinging temporarily around the corrupt core.
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- eganist 4y ago> All this technology, laws, systems, institutions, people, moral education, increased awareness and everything modern has not moved the society a lot in any positive direction. Just wobbling around a point, swinging temporarily around the corrupt core. In fairness, there also hasn't been much development of proactively moral technology, moreso reactively moral i.e. detective and responsive. To wit: > According to court testimony, not all the files were in the Dropbox folder the day Cessario downloaded the files and then made his copies. For whatever reason, only 39 of at least 119 audio files made it to the defense. Recorded conversations specifically mentioned in texts from Neal's attorney to Cessario in 2016 were not there. > Cessario was ordered Dec. 4 in an email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Jennen to turn over the laptop for examination to try and find out what happened. That same day Cessario had the hard drive professionally erased at a computer shop in Bentonville, then erased it again himself before turning it in on Dec. 7, he testified in a pretrial hearing Jan. 25. Audit trails and forensic tech all over the place surfaced it, which theory holds should be a dissuasive factor on future corruption. Time will tell though; moral and immoral tech and moral/immoral implementations of tech are in a runaway arms race.
- themitigating 4y agoWhat core is that? People?
- kumarvvr 4y agoHuman nature and an overwhelming materialistic and selfish way of life.
- formerly_proven 4y agoI knew there was gonna be a capitalism critique in this thread!
- themitigating 4y agoIf you want stuff but the only way to get it is by hurting others it increases the probability, you'll hurt others. right?
- kbelder 4y agoIf you want stuff, but the only way to get it is through voluntary trade, it reduces the probability you'll hurt others.
- wrycoder 4y agoNo mention of capitalism. Their comment relates to a corrupt and entitled elite, which has come to exist in most societies down through history. The trick is to peacefully cycle the elite out of power before they become corrupt, because it seems that most humans will become corrupt, given the opportunity.
- themitigating 4y agoWell there's nothing you can do about that except educate people. Wouldn't you say people are nicer than they were 100 years ago? 500 years ago?
- daenz 4y agoPower is having people in key positions that can change an outcome when its needed. All of the security in the world doesn't do any good if the humans enforcing it are compromised.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> every major unethical, immoral or even outright treasonous act in the past decade dwindles down to a few scapegoats Corrupt FBI agent gets caught. How does even this cue choirs of nihilism?
- duxup 4y agoOn HN just about anything triggers that these days.
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